Quotes
"Gascoyne, please leave the room and go to cookery"
"Why, Sir?"
"Because you are rubbish at art".
- Baz’s art teacher at school when he was 14 yr. old
"A canvas is an arena in which to act".
- Jackson Pollock
"The world today doesn’t make sense so why should I paint pictures that do".
- Pablo Picasso
"It is not hard to understand modern art: if it hangs on the wall, it’s a painting; if you can walk round it, it is a sculpture".
- Unknown
"An artist who theorises about his work is no longer artistic but a critic".
- H. G. Wells
"If it sells, it’s art".
- Frank Lloyd
"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures".
- Henry Ward Beecher.
"Every good artist paints what he is".
- Jackson Pollock
"Painters and poets have liberty to lie".
- Robert Burns
"I inherited a painting and a violin which turned out to be a Rembrandt and a Stradivarius. Unfortunately, Rembrandt made lousy
violin’s and Stradivarius was a terrible painter".
- Tommy Cooper
"Painting is just another way of keeping a diary".
- Pablo Picasso
"The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work".
- Emile Zola
"Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things".
- Edgar Degas
"Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn’t have any beginning or any end. He didn’t mean it as a compliment but it was".
- Jackson Pollock