Art Quotes

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
Aristotle Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist

An amateur is someone who supports himself with outside jobs which enable him to paint. A professional is someone whose wife works to enable him to paint.

Ben Shahn

Rembrandt painted 700 pictures. Of these, 3,000 are still in existence.

Wilhelm Bode

Any fool can paint a picture, but it takes a wise man to be able to sell it.
Samuel Butler

Abstract art is the product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Al Capp

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