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Mr Lewis’ pictures appeared to have been painted by a mailed fist in a cotton glove.

(1887 – 1964) English biographer, critic, novelist & poet

It resembles a tortoise shell cat having a fit in a plate of tomatoes.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

I don’t paint things; I only paint the difference between things.

(1869 – 1954) French artist

Art is science made clear.

(1876 – 1933) screenwriter

Last year I went fishing with Salvador Dali; he was using a dotted line… he caught every other fish.

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

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

(1921 – 2004) English actor & author

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

(1906 – 1965) American sculptor

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

(1834 – 1917) French artist

Bad artists always admire each other’s work.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

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

(1908 – 1970) American professor of psychology

I always ask the sitter if they want truth or flattery; they always ask for truth, and I always give them flattery.

(1911 – 1990) English painter

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

It was Public Art, defined as art that is purchased by experts who are not spending their own personal money.

(1947 – ) American columnist & humorist

If people only knew as much about painting as I do, they would never buy my pictures.

(1802 – 1873) English painter

Rembrandt painted 700 pictures; of these, 3,000 are still in existence.

(1845 – 1929) German art historian & curator

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

Art is a jealous mistress and if a man has a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.

(1803 – 1882) essayist, poet, & philosopher

At the Last Supper, how come no one sat at the other side of the table?

(1955 – ) American stand-up comedian & actor

The only proof of taste Beckford has shown with his collection is getting rid of it.

(1778 – 1830) English writer, essayist, critic, grammarian & philosopher

A primitive artist is an amateur whose work sells.

Anna Mary Robertson (1860 – 1961) American artist

I don’t own any of my own paintings because a Picasso original costs several thousand dollars and that's a luxury I cannot afford.

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