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| Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945) | Anyone who sees and paints a sky green and fields blue ought to be sterilized. | |
| Al Capp | [Abstract art is] a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. | |
| Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970) | Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons. | |
| Edmond de Concourt (1822 - 1896) | A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world. | |
| Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840 - 1917) | I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. - (when asked to explain his sculpture method) | |
| Frank Zappa (1940 - 1993) | Art is making something out of nothing and selling it. | |
| George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950) | Martyrdom is the only way a person can become famous without ability. | |
| George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950) | If more than ten percent of the population likes a painting it should be burned, for it must be bad | |
| George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950) | Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable. | |
| Hilton Kramer | The more minimal the art, the more maximum the explanation. | |
| John Barth | It is often pleasant to stone a martyr, no matter how much we admire him. | |
| John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963) | The supreme reality of our time is the vulnerability of our planet. | |
| Lester Bangs (1948 - 1982) | The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious. - (rock critic) | |
| Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BC - 65 AD) | All art is but imitation of nature. | |
| Mark Twain | Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins. | |
| Mickey Friedman | Never give a party if you will be the most interesting person there. | |
| Orson Welles (1915 - 1985) | I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time. | |
| Oscar Wilde | A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it. | |
| Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900) | The enemy of art is the absence of limitations. | |
| Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973) | There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality. | |
| Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973) | Bad artists copy; great artists steal. | |
| Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973) | Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. | |
| Peter De Vries (1910 - 1993) | The murals in restaurants are on par with the food in museums. | |
| Robert Byrne (1917 - ) | Partying is such sweet sorrow. | |
| Stewart Udall (1920 - ) | The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth, and the Native American shared this elemental ethic: The land was alive to his loving touch, and he, its son, was brother to all creatures. - (US Representative, Secretary of Interior) | |
| Tom Stoppard (1937 - ) | Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art. | |
| Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890) | I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
- (painter) | |
| Wilson Mizner (1876 - 1933) | Art is science made clear. | |
| Winston Churchill | Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed. |
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