Quotes About Art

I make sure that my pictures are not too erotic and that they always have a trace of humor. I make sure they are 'in good taste.' Either you understand it or not.

You learn very very quickly that it is mostly about swearing, actually. That's all you're doing, swearing, in a box with wheels.

I like to go to art museums and name the untitled paintings... Boy With Pail... Kitten On Fire.

I seated ugliness on my knee, and almost immediately grew tired of it.

If my kid couldn't draw I'd make sure that my kitchen magnets didn't work.

Romantic literature is in effect imaginative lying.

We have truth in order not to die of art.

A copy of the universe is not what is required of art; one of the damned things is ample.

I'm an ice sculptor. Last night I made a cube.

I sometimes close my eyes during a show because I have drawn a picture of an audience enjoying the show more on the back of my eyelids.

I think comedy is the hardest art form there is.

A true sonnet goes eight lines and then takes a turn for better or worse and goes six or eight lines more.

Good painter imitates nature, bad ones spews it up.

I like your opera - I think I will set it to music

Sorry I painted the word 'twat' on your garage door.

Assassination is an art, milord, and I am the city's most accomplished artist - Durzo Blint

Erasing is exercise for the hands

The poet is a faker / Who's so good at his act / He even fakes the pain / Of pain he feels in fact.

Magic. I draw with silver and it turns red.

Magic is the only honest profession. A magician promises to deceive you and he does.

(1)BEING A POETis like opening a car door& exposing yourself.(2)BEING A GOOD POETis like opening the door& exposing the passengeras well.

I never understood, what a starving artist was until I became one.

W.S. Gilbert, Patience

They say everything looks better with odd numbers of things. But sometimes I put even numbers—just to upset the critics.