Results: Do you have a favorite art quote?

Artist: Diana B

I have a zillion quotations on art, but here are a few favorites:

Matisse once told the Hollywood film star Edward G. Robinson that the only thing that drove him to paint was the rising urge to strangle someone.

I can’t think much of a people who drew cats the same for four thousand years.
~Lord Kitchener on Egyptian art

A portrait is a painting with something wrong with the mouth.
~John Singer Sargent

It takes two to paint. One to paint, the other to stand by with an axe to kill him before he spoils it.
~William Merritt Chase

How important are the visual arts in our society? I feel strongly that the visual arts are of vast and incalculable importance. Of course I could be prejudiced. I am a visual art.
~Kermit the Frog

I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers
~Claude Monet