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Abstract art? A product of the untalented, sold by the
unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
- Al Capp
The only genius with an IQ of 60.
- Gore Vidal on Andy Warhol
The most famous living artist in America is Andy Warhol, unfortunately.
- John Heilpern on Andy Warhol
Leonardo da Vinci did everything and did nothing very well.
- Marie Bashkirtseef on Leonardo da Vinci
The naked truth about me is to the naked truth of Salvador Dali as an old
ukulele in the attic is to a piano in a tree, and I mean a piano with breasts.
- James Thurber on Salvador Dali
Se?or Dali, born delirious,
Considers it folly to be serious.
- Phyllis McGinley on on Salvador Dali
Matisse is an unmitigated bore. Surely the vogue of those twisted and contorted
human figures must be as short as it is artificial.
- Harriet Monroe on Henri Matisse
What is art? Prostitution.
Charles Baudelaire
It is only too easy to catch people's attention by doing something worse than
anyone else has dared to do it before.
- Charivari on Claude Monet
Vincent van Gogh's mother painted all of his best things. The famous mailed
decapitated ear was a figment of the public relations firm engaged by Van Gogh's
dealer.
- Roy Blount, Jr. on Vincent van Gogh
My dear Whistler, you leave your pictures in such a sketchy, unfinished state.
Why don't you ever finish them?
- Frederic Leighton to James McNeill Whistler
My dear Leighton, why do you ever begin yours?
- James McNeill Whistler, in reply
His pictures seem to resemble not pictures but a sample book of patterns of
linoleum.
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