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THE ART WORLD


"There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad."
-- Salvador Dali.

"If it sells, it's art."
-- Frank Lloyd.

"Salvador Dali seduced many ladies, particularly American ladies, but these
seductions usually consisted of stripping them naked in his apartment, frying a
couple of eggs, putting them on the woman's shoulders and, without a word,
showing them the door."
-- Luis Bunuel.

"This is either a forgery or a damn clever original."
-- Frank Sullivan.

"Anyone who sees and paints a sky green and fields blue ought to be sterilised."
-- Adolf Hitler.

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

"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.

"When having my portrait painted I don't want justice, I want mercy."
-- Billy Hughes.

"The art galleries of Paris contain the finest collection of frames I ever saw."
-- Humphrey Davy.

"I inherited a painting and a violin which turned out to be a Rembrandt and a
Stradivarius. Unfortunately, Rembrandt made lousy violins and Stradivarius was a
terrible painter."
-- Tommy Cooper.






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