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Art, like morality, consists in drawing a line somewhere.

(1874 – 1936) English author & mystery novelist

Morality, like art, means a drawing a line someplace.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

If Botticelli were alive today, he’d be working for Vogue.

(1921 – 2004) English actor & author

The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do? 

(1881 – 1973) Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker & stage designer

The Mushroom in Christian Art

Art is science made clear.

(1876 – 1933) screenwriter

Many are willing to suffer for their art.. few are willing to learn to draw.

(1967 – ) English comedian

The finest collection of frames I ever saw.

(1778 – 1829) English chemist

If more than ten per cent of the population likes a painting, it should be burned, for it must be bad.

(1856 – 1950) Irish playwright & socialist

Gravitation is the only logical factor a sculptor has to contend with.

(1906 – 1965) American sculptor

Look, it’s my misery that I have to paint this kind of painting, it’s your misery that you have to love it, and the price of the misery is thirteen hundred and fifty dollars.

(1903 – 1970) Russian artist

When having my portrait painted I don’t want justice, I want mercy.

(1862 – 1952) Australian Prime Minister & politician

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.

(1941 – ) American dancer & choreographer

Every child is an artist; the problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

(1881 – 1973) Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker & stage designer

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

(1881 – 1973) Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker & stage designer

Good art is in the wallet of the beholder.

(1958 – ) Australian author

A first rate soup is better than a second rate painting.

(1908 – 1970) American professor of psychology

Painting is easy when you don’t know how, but very difficult when you do.  

(1834 – 1917) French artist

Sex is like art; most of it is pretty bad, and the good stuff is out of your price range.

writer, website creator

The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do? 

(1881 – 1973) Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker & stage designer

Man: Mr. Melon, your wife was just showing us her Klimt [an Austrian painter].

Thornton Melon: You too, huh? She’s shown it to everybody.

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor