Portal:Art/Quotes
“Never show an ostrich any art!”
– Dali
“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”
“Take me! I am the hallucinogenic!”
“You live and learn. At any rate, you live”
“I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle”
“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”
“No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.”
“Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.”
“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.”
“All art is not immoral.”
“Art is resistance! ”
“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.”