Scott Adams
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
Pablo Picasso
I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.
Henri Matisse
Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
Oscar Wilde
Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.
Edgar Degas
Great art picks up where nature ends.
Marc Chagall
An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he - for some reason - thinks it would be a good idea to give them.
Andy Warhol
A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.
Edmond de Goncourt
I am for an art that is political-erotical-mystical, that does something other than sit on its ass in a museum.
Claes Oldenburg
Artists can color the sky red because they know it's blue. Those of us who aren't artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we're stupid.
Jules Feiffer
Why should I paint dead fish, onions and beer glasses? Girls are so much prettier.
Marie Laurencin