Witty Art Quotes

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

Ljupka Cvetanova

#2. Just as, with the radio, there are certain things that you become fond of, and you welcome them and resent the new things

Ernest Hemingway,

#3. Art should be witty, like a good Eddie Murphy movie, to make your life a little easier and better.

William Quigley

#4. I don't actually listen to much music since I need quiet to work.

Johanna Lindsey

#5. Pretending to care what men think is an art. It takes moments to learn, but lifetimes to master. I'd like to believe I'm an expert.

Dennis Sharpe

#6. It's that same quality I've been talking about. It's neither contrived, nor surprising and smart, not baffling, not witty, not interesting, not cynical, it can't be planned and it probably can't even be described. It's just good.

Gerhard Richter

#7. There are a great many colored people who are ashamed of the cake-walk, but I think they ought to be proud of it.

James Weldon Johnson

#8. When you paint late at night, drinking beer or wine or both, you gotta be very careful to watch what you are doing ...

Hiroko Sakai

#9. The statue lies hid in a block of marble; and the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter, and removes the rubbish.

Joseph Addison

#10. What's that?' Thaniel said, curious. The postmarks and stamps weren't English or Japanese.

'A painting. There's a depressed Dutchman who does countryside scenes and flowers and things. It's ugly, but I have to maintain the estates in Japan and modern art is a good investment.

Natasha Pulley

#11. The only problem we've had is the amount of time it's taking people to develop titles.

Trip Hawkins

#12. yes, i have dated Salvador Dali guy when i was a high school girl. he was a great lover. but i had to dump him because he stole my inspiration of bent clock*~* .... who cares...

Hiroko Sakai

#13. ONLY' having the Gift, people appreciate this madness as Art. Everybody wants to have Art in their lives, but no body wants to have what the Art came out from in their lives ...

Hiroko Sakai

#14. An important factor to note is that it's rare for anyone to sell a first novel written before they turned 30-35; long-format fiction tends to require a bunch of experience of human life that takes time to acquire. So your average mid-career novelist is in their forties to fifties!

Charles Stross