“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
“Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can”
Danny Kaye
“There are three things I have always loved, and never understood - painting, music, women”
Fontenelle
“Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public sees, and the public never sees anything.”
Oscar Wilde
“I consciously choose the dog's path through life. I shall be poor; I shall be a painter...”
Vincent van Gogh
“Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.”
William Blake
“A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.”
Abraham Maslow
