Top 100 Humor Art Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Humor Art

#1. Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing. And even if you don't come up with a picture to cure world poverty you can make someone smile while they're having a piss.

Banksy

#2. The following Discourse [on art, by Sir Joshua Reynolds] is particularly Interesting to Blockheads as it endeavours to prove that There is No such thing as Inspiration & that any Man of a plain Understanding may by Thieving from Others become a Mich Angelo.

William Blake

#3. The art teacher's scarlet book was called Story of the Eye by Georges Bataille. 'As the title suggests,' Mr Dunwoody saw the book'd caught my attention, 'it's about the history of opticians. What are you about?

David Mitchell

#4. From space this Earth is incandescent with abominations - the gods write their signature in our entrails

Steve Aylett

#5. The French always make our sort happy because, like us, they know how to love, they're just as good at playing the accordion, and they've made a real art of their inability to bake proper bread.

Sasa Stanisic

#6. Chaplin and Keaton are still the best. They know that there is nothing more serious than laughter, an art demanding infinite work, and that as long as the world revolves, making others laugh is the most splendid of activities.

Eduardo Galeano

#7. Weirdism is definitely the cornerstone of many an artist's career.

E.A. Bucchianeri

#8. Some days I tell myself that my mission is to say something about the art and sometimes the bliss of limitation. And the legibility of landscape. Other days are more dismal. As if I were queueing in the rain outside confessional literature's nudist colony, mirrors everywhere, blue with cold.

Fredrik Sjoberg

#9. That's art. Nothing is for everybody.

Brian Spellman

#10. On Art Garfunkel - He makes Paul Simon look like LL Cool J.

Ian Gittins

#11. An artist should paint from the heart, and not always what people expect. Predictability often leads to the dullest work, in my opinion, and we have been bored stiff long enough I think.

E.A. Bucchianeri

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

Steven Wright

#13. A gypsy girl approached Don Zana and Alfanhui and held out her tambourine. Don Zana said to her, 'You don't pay for art, kid.

Rafael Sanchez Ferlosio

#14. An as-yet-unpublished poet in Boulder, Colorado, once said to me that anything worth doing was worth doing badly. I may seem, in the foregoing sketchy pages, to have followed her advice rather too well.

Joanna Russ

#15. A work of art is an act of love. Critics are crab lice.

David Gerrold

#16. Do you write novels?" I said.
"Novels, Lord no," she said. "I can't even stay married.

Pam Houston

#17. Crayola makes all kinds of crazy colors. You know. Burnt umber. Burnt sienna. Blanched almond. Baby-shit yellow. And so on, and so forth. I'm just saying, cockroaches Have their own color. It's distinct. Crayola should get on that. The kids'll love it.

Chuck Wendig

#18. The human body is the best work of art.

Jess C. Scott

#19. Without an element of vulgarity, no man can be a work of art ... I have to try and think what an artist is, apart from a hooligan who cannot live within his income of praise.

Quentin Crisp

#20. I think comedy is the hardest art form there is.

John Popper

#21. Wonderful craftsmanship, Simon decided with the expert eye of one who had played enough computer games to know art when he saw it.

Sorin Suciu

#22. Knowledge empowers people. If people know the rules, and are sensitized by art, humor, and creativity, they are much more likely to accept change.

Antanas Mockus

#23. A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

Bob Ross

#25. I have been accused of being a joker. But the most successful art to me involves humor.

Man Ray

#26. You don't have to make something that people call art. Living is an artistic activity, there is an art to getting through the day.

Viggo Mortensen

#27. Satire is moral outrage transformed into comic art.

Philip Roth

#28. I have made up my mind that I will never marry. I shall be wedded to my art.

L.M. Montgomery

#29. If we ban whatever offends any group in our diverse society, we will soon have no art, no culture, no humor, no satire. Satire is by its nature offensive. So is much art and political discourse. The value of these expressions far outweighs their risk.

Erica Jong

#30. 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

#31. To call an artist morbid because he deals with morbidity as his subject-matter is as silly as if one called Shakespeare mad because he wrote 'King Lear.

Oscar Wilde

#32. Be kind to dragons, for thou art crunchy when toasted and taste good with ketchup. (Sebastian)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#33. We are bored in the city, to still discover mysteries on the signs along the street, latest state of humor and poetry, requires getting damned tired...

Gilles Ivain (aka Ivan Chtcheglov)

Tom McDonough

#34. I'm a sworn enemy of convention. I despite the conventional in anything, even the arts. I paint canvasses on the floor and drove one art teacher out of his mind. But that's just the way I paint best.

Hedy Lamarr

#35. Here's to freedom, cheers to art. Here's to having an excellent adventure and may the stopping never start.

Jason Mraz

#36. Art is anything you can get away with.

Marshall McLuhan

#37. An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

Andy Warhol

#38. If art can never offer levity, then I'll have none of it!

Annette Schrab Clark

#39. Art Modell was a visionary, a deal-maker and a friend. And he possessed a marvelous sense of humor.

Steve Tisch

#40. Poetry is not an art, it's a symptom.

Michele Brenton

#41. Inside the mirrored elevator, Mulch used a telescopic pointer to push P for the penthouse. For the first few months he had jumped to reach the button, but that was undignified behavior for a millionaire. And besides, he was certain that Art could hear the thumping from the security desk.

Eoin Colfer

#42. Personally, I think so-called "common language" is more interesting and apropos than "proper English"; it's passionate and powerful in ways that "wherefore art thou ass and thy elbow" just isn't.

J.R. Ward

#43. TIMING TOAST
Grook on how to char for yourself
There's an art of knowing when.
Never try to guess.
Toast until it smokes and then
twenty seconds less.

Piet Hein

#44. Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#45. Forget art. Put your trust in ice cream.

Charles Baxter

#46. Thou art very Trinculo indeed! How cam'st thou to be seize of this moon calf? Can he vent Trinculos?

William Shakespeare

#47. While art thrives on the blazing colours of scandal, literature blossoms on the dark soil of tragedy.

E.A. Bucchianeri

#48. Flirting is a "controversial art form" that leaves the intended either flattered, infatuated, creeped out or getting a restraining order.

Shannon L. Alder

#49. But I think frustration is hilarious. One of my missions is to bring humor into fine art. It's sacred.

Wayne White

#50. Tis no extravagant arithmetic to say, that for every ten jokes, thou hast got an hundred enemies; and till thou hast gone on, and raised a swarm of wasps about thine ears, and art half stung to death by them, thou wilt never be convinced it is so.

Laurence Sterne

#51. Oh! to shoot for the stars if feels right. Aim for my heart if it feels right.

Maroon 5

#52. Politics is the art of achieving prestige and power without merit.

P. J. O'Rourke

#53. The last void stone I'd worn was a beautiful black stone caught in vines of copper and silver. It looked like a necklace, a piece of art, really. This thing was spud-ugly.

Devon Monk

#54. Infiltrating the records of a state penitentiary as well as the state and federal court systems was much more fun than deciphering art. -Phil Roach

Aleatha Romig

#55. Most people in America think Art is a man's name.

Andy Warhol

#56. Please do not strain yourself, Miss Doyle. I won't have my girls going cross-eyed in the name of art.

Libba Bray

#57. We have truth in order not to die of art.

Steve Aylett

#58. Well, art is art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water! And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now, uh ... now you tell me what you know.

Groucho Marx

#59. Good humor isn't a trait of character, it is an art which requires practice.

David Seabury

#60. The most important thing in art is The Frame. For painting: literally; for other arts: figuratively
because, without this humble appliance, you can't know where The Art stops and The Real World begins. You have to put a 'box' around it because otherwise, what is that shit on the wall?

Frank Zappa

#61. I'm just a simple guy. I love beer, sex, and hockey. I hate liars, Sting, and art that doesn't have people in it. - Luke Almeida

Kate Meader

#62. All art is but dirtying the paper delicately.

John Ruskin

#63. Art boy is obviously intimidated. You're like the sun and he's squinting up at you, barely able to see because of your blinking radiance

Jody Gehrman

#64. The road to creativity passes so close to the madhouse and often detours or ends there.

Ernest Becker

#65. An artist who maintains that he has been misunderstood is almost always a bad artist who, I'm afraid to say, has been understood.

Jo Nesbo

#66. wash the brush, just beats the devil out of it

Bob Ross

#67. Politics is the only art whose artists regularly disown their masterpieces.

Raheel Farooq

#68. I pointed at Wireman's forehead. "This is your brain," I said. Then I pointed at my easel. "This is your brain on canvas.

Stephen King

#69. I love crafting. Knitting, decoupage, scrapbooking, any "lady-ish" art form, I'm a fan. For about six months each. Then I shove all the supplies in a closet, alongside the skeletons of long dead New Year's resolutions, like saber fencing, playing the ukulele, and Japanese brush painting.

Felicia Day

#70. The one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.

Salvador Dali

#71. It would be a really bad idea to let this person loose."

"How bad of an idea?"

"Kicking-Hitler-out-of-art-school bad.

Rin Chupeco

#72. There's a fine line between minimalism and not trying very hard.

Tom Pappalardo

#73. To me you are a work of art, and I would give you my heart - that's if I had one.

Morrissey

#74. If it weren't for greed, intolerance, hate, passion and murder, you would have no works of art, no great buildings, no medical science, no Mozart, no Van Gough, no Muppets and no Louis Armstrong.

Jasper Fforde

#75. A painting is worth a thousand confused art-gallery visitors.

Ljupka Cvetanova

#76. Artists are never appreciated at lunchtime," Kelly mumbled as she stuffed her camera into her pocket.

Alex Gino

#77. Some things are so silly they have a certain brilliance to them. Other things, set as standards for brilliance and therefore exalted by many who don't know why, become tarnished because of it.

Criss Jami

#78. The attempt to develop a sense of humor and to see things in a humorous light is some kind of a trick learned while mastering the art of living.

Viktor E. Frankl

#79. Although the photographer and the art thief were close friends, neither had ever taken the other's picture.

George Carlin

#80. Like many people who dress in black, the lump of coal was interested in becoming an artist.

Lemony Snicket

#81. Art has one purpose, that is to leave you changed. Love has one purpose, that is to create art.

Julieanne O'Connor

#82. Wealth announces itself with what's easy to break and impossible to clean. The chairs were all curvy works of art that turned sitting into yoga exercises.

Anthony Marra

#83. Will you dance for me? Let your breasts roam for a moment
I need to see how they dance.'
'Okay.' She danced, and as she danced, she tried to think of the most delicious salads she could imagine
with artichokes and sundried tomato and blue cheese dressing, and beets, lots of beets.

Nicholson Baker

#84. As I developed as an artist and studied art history, I noticed that all the great works were dealing with the human condition. [Art] had humor in it. It had sex in it. But it also had sorrow running through it.

Eric Drooker

#85. My own life is wonderful, but if I had to live the life of someone else, I'd gladly choose that of Julia Child or Dr. Seuss: two outrageously original people, each of whom fashioned an idiosyncratic wisdom, passion for life, and sense of humor into an art form that anyone and everyone could savor.

Julia Glass

#86. I like my smock. You can tell the quality of the artist by the quality of his smock. Actually, I just like to say smock. Smock smock smock smock smock smock.

Bill Watterson

#87. If you're a struggling artist having money problems just superglue a brick in the middle of a blanket, and call it art. Someone will buy it.

Nicole McKay

#88. Interns, unite: you have nothing to lose but your unpaid positions!

Piccolo Fortunato

#89. 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

#90. Erik Satie died on July 1, 1925; his last words were 'Ah, the cows ...

John Richardson

#91. All the world is queer save thee and me, and even thou art a little queer.

Robert Owen

#92. The Guide says there is an art to flying", said Ford, "or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

Douglas Adams

#93. ** The fall semester will offer such classes as Learning When to Shut Up, Asking for Directions, Chick Flicks 101 and The Art of Loading the Dishwasher (Lab Fee Extra)

K. Larsen

#94. What are you doing with the child?" I inquired cautiously.
"I'm teachin' young James here the fine art of not pissing on his feet," he explained.

Diana Gabaldon