When my daughter was about seven years old, she asked me one day what I did at work. I told her I worked at the college - that my job was to teach people how to draw. She stared at me, incredulous, and said, "You mean they forget?" - Howard Ikemoto

Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame. - G.K. Chesterton

What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit. - John Updike

The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist does not tinker with the universe, he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life. - Henry Miller

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist. - Oscar Wilde

Let me ask you something, what is not art? - Author Unknown

An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he - for some reason - thinks it would be a good idea to give them. - Andy Warhol

The buttocks are the most aesthetically pleasing part of the body because they are non-functional. Although they conceal an essential orifice, these pointless globes are as near as the human form can ever come to abstract art. - Kenneth Tynan