Portal:Art/Quotes

“Never show an ostrich any art!”

“Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic”

“If my husband would ever meet a woman on the street who looked like the women in his paintings, he would fall over in a dead faint”

— Mrs. Picasso

“I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot”

— Steve Martin

“Take me! I am the hallucinogenic!”

— Salvador Dali

“You live and learn. At any rate, you live”

— Douglas Adams

“I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle”

— Alfred Hitchcock

“Salvador Dali seduced many ladies, particularly American ladies, but these seductions usually consisted frying them a couple of eggs, and then showing them the door”

— Luis Bunuel

“The art galleries of Paris contain the finest collection of frames I ever saw”

— Humphrey Davy

“All art is quite useless”

— Oscar Wilde

“No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.”

— Oscar Wilde

“Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.”

— Oscar Wilde

“We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely.”

— Oscar Wilde

“All art is not immoral.”

— Oscar Wilde

“Art is resistance! ”

— Trent Reznor

“If there's one thing I can't live without, it's dipping my hands in a cool, drippy vat of paint and admiring the sensation.”

— David Bowie