The English public takes no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in question is immoral.

The reason that some portraits don’t look true to life is that some people make no effort to resemble their pictures.

You stay here for a moment. I’ll go upstairs and fetch the etchings.

TheVenus de Milo is a good example of what happens to somebody who won’t stop biting her fingernails.

All my life I have wanted to be a great painter in oils. I am tired of politics and as soon as I have carried out my programme in Germany, I shall take up my painting. I feel that I have it in myself to become one of the great artists of the age and that future historians will remember me, not for what I have done for Germany, but for my art.

Every morning when I awake, I experience a supreme pleasure — ghat of being Salvador Dali

Right now I’m the greatest. I don’t say this out of vanity — it’s just that the rest are so bad.

The enemy of all painting is the colour grey.

When I had to fill in a census paper, I gave my profession as genius and my infirmity as talent.

It’s God — I recognised him from Blake’s picture.

If more than ten per cent of the population likes a painting, it should be burned, for it must be bad.

I’ve posed nude for a photographer in the manner of Rodin’s Thinker, but I looked merely constipated.

I don’t own any of my own paintings because a Picasso original costs several thousand dollars and that’s a luxury I cannot afford.

Immature artists imitate, mature artists steal.

I believe I am the only Irishman apart from the staff who has ever set foot in the National Gallery of Ireland.

If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay in solid cash, the arts would perish with their starving practitioners.

The murals in restaurants are about on a par with the food in art galleries.

Edith Sitwell’s interest in art was largely confined to portraits of herself.

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