Art Quotes

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

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
Aristotle

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

Al Capp

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

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

Wilhelm Bode

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