Julie R. Neidlinger: Lone Prairie Art and Writing

Art: Great quotes that have the potential to depress or inspire.

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I've collected art quotes over the years that, depending on my mood or experiences as an artist at the time of collection, may either depress or inspire the artists out there.

Let's get started.

If more than ten percent of the population likes a painting, it should be burned for it must be bad.
-George Bernard Shaw

Architecture is the art of how to waste space.
- Phillip Johnson

Modern art is like trying to follow the plot in alphabet soup.
- Anonymous

What is art? Prostitution.
- Charles Baudelaire

The true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art.
- George Bernard Shaw

I'm glad the old masters are all dead, an I only wish they had died sooner.
- Mark Twain

Two and two continue to make four, in spite of the whine of the amateur for three, or the cry of the art critic for five.
- James McNeill Whistler

So yes, this was a bit silly.

Happy art-making!