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- Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
- Don Marquis (1878 - 1937)
- Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
- Tom Stoppard (1937 - ), "Artist Descending a Staircase"
- Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.
- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
- Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.
- Ernest Benn
- The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Critic as Artist, 1891
- You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it.
- Art Buchwald (1925 - 2007)
- I have given two cousins to war and I stand ready to sacrifice my wife's brother.
- Artemus Ward (1834 - 1867)
- Anything not worth doing is worth not doing well. Think about it.
- Elias Schwartz
- The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
- Dorothy Nevill
- The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
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