When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel s ceiling, he spent the rest of his life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve. -- Francois Cavanna
Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame. -- G. K. Chesterton
If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered2 as a fabulous3 model. Kate Moss4? Well, she would have been the paintbrush... -- Dawn French
The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Give me a museum and I ll fill it. -- Pablo Picasso
I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don t need. -- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable5 statues
See what will happen if you don t stop biting your fingernails? -- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo
Skill without imagination is craftsmanship6 and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art. -- Tom Stoppard
Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life. -- Oscar Wilde
