| Author |
Quotes |
| Jon Witcomb | Portraits are supposed to "look within," but in my opinion very few people have an interior significantly different from the outside portrait. |
| Josh Billings | About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment. |
| Kenneth Tynan | The buttocks are the most aesthetically pleasing part of the body because they are non-functional. Although they conceal an essential orifice, these pointless globes are as near as the human form can ever come to abstract art. |
| Leonardo Da Vinci | One day the world will look upon research on animals as it now looks upon research on human beings. Da Vinci. |
| Lester Bangs | The first mistake of Art is to assume that it's serious. |
| Lindsay Anderson | Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem. |
| Lionel Trilling | Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal. |
| Ludwig van Beethoven | No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist. |
| M C Escher | Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it's in my basement... let me go upstairs and check. |
| Marc Chagall | Great art picks up where nature ends. |
| Marcel Proust | Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature. |
| Maria Lenhart | The fact that writers will go through so much to remain writers says something, perhaps everything. It would be far easier to become a real estate agent. |
| Marie Laurencin | Why should I paint dead fish, onions and beer glasses? Girls are so much prettier. |
| Marilyn French | One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear. |
| Marshall McLuhan | Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century. |
| Max Eastman | The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness. |
| Melvin Maddocks | Giving jazz the Congressional seal of approval is a little like making Huck Finn an honorary Boy Scout. |
| Michelangelo | The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection. |
| Mike Royko | Anyone who contributes to the defense fund of pornographers is a mental moonbeam. |
| Mikhail Baryshnikov | The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure. |
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