random funny art quotes
Just to brighten your day. : )
“How important are the visual arts in our society? I feel strongly that the visual arts are of vast and incalculable importance. Of course I could be prejudiced. I am a visual art.” --Kermit the Frog
"My Art belongs to Dada." --Cole Porter
"If Botticelli were alive today he'd be working for Vogue." -Peter Ustinov
“A genius with the IQ of a moron.” (of Andy Warhol) -Gore Vidal
“Yes-one does like to make one’s mummy just as nice as possible!” (on his portrait of his mother) -James McNeill Whistler
“All that I desire to point out is the general principle that Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life.” -Oscar Wilde
to a lady who had been reminded of his work by an ‘exquisite haze in the atmosphere’: “yes, madam, Nature is creeping up.” -- James McNeill Whistler
“It’s amazing what you can do with an E in A-level art, twisted imagination and a chainsaw.” -Damien Hurst
“If a scientist were to cut his ear off, no one would take it as evidence of heightened sensibility.” -Peter Medawar
“There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk.” -Charles Dickens
an old lady on Epstein’s controversial Christ in Majesty: “I can never forgive Mr. Epstein for his representation of Our Lord. So very un-English!”-anonymous
“Oh, I wish I could draw. I’ve always wanted to draw. I’d give my right arm to be able to draw. It must be very relaxing.” -Alan Ayckbourn
“The artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs. It is a disease which arises from men not having sufficient power of expression to utter and get rid of the element of art in their being.” -G.K. Chesterton
“The problem with [art show] openings is that everybody is telling you how wonderful you are. Then three days later, I’m back in the darkroom and if I am so wonderful why am I having so much trouble figuring out how to make this image? Openings give a false sense of ego.” -Jerry Uelsmann
“How important are the visual arts in our society? I feel strongly that the visual arts are of vast and incalculable importance. Of course I could be prejudiced. I am a visual art.” --Kermit the Frog
"My Art belongs to Dada." --Cole Porter
"If Botticelli were alive today he'd be working for Vogue." -Peter Ustinov
“A genius with the IQ of a moron.” (of Andy Warhol) -Gore Vidal
“Yes-one does like to make one’s mummy just as nice as possible!” (on his portrait of his mother) -James McNeill Whistler
“All that I desire to point out is the general principle that Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life.” -Oscar Wilde
to a lady who had been reminded of his work by an ‘exquisite haze in the atmosphere’: “yes, madam, Nature is creeping up.” -- James McNeill Whistler
“It’s amazing what you can do with an E in A-level art, twisted imagination and a chainsaw.” -Damien Hurst
“If a scientist were to cut his ear off, no one would take it as evidence of heightened sensibility.” -Peter Medawar
“There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk.” -Charles Dickens
an old lady on Epstein’s controversial Christ in Majesty: “I can never forgive Mr. Epstein for his representation of Our Lord. So very un-English!”-anonymous
“Oh, I wish I could draw. I’ve always wanted to draw. I’d give my right arm to be able to draw. It must be very relaxing.” -Alan Ayckbourn
“The artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs. It is a disease which arises from men not having sufficient power of expression to utter and get rid of the element of art in their being.” -G.K. Chesterton
“The problem with [art show] openings is that everybody is telling you how wonderful you are. Then three days later, I’m back in the darkroom and if I am so wonderful why am I having so much trouble figuring out how to make this image? Openings give a false sense of ego.” -Jerry Uelsmann