I hate flowers. I paint them because they’re cheaper than models and they don’t move.-Georgia O’Keeffe

The more you look at modern art exhibits, the more everything begins to look like an exhibit, including the attendant’s chair and the fire extinguisher.-Brian Sewell

If the old masters had labelled their fruit, one wouldn’t be so likely to mistake pears for turnips.-Mark Twain

Rembrandt painted 700 pictures. Of these 3,000 are in existence.-Wilhelm Bode

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea.-John Ciardi

An amateur is an artist 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

If you have a burning restless urge to paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.-Fran Lebowitz

I would never have taken up painting if women did not have breasts.-Pierre Auguste Renoir

Van Gogh would have sold more than one painting if he’d put tigers in them.-Tom Hobbes