“To me, nothing in the art world is neutral. The idea of 'disinterest' strikes me as boring, dishonest, dubious, and uninteresting.”

“Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.”

“A verbal art like poetry is reflective it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.”

“Diplomacy, n. is the art of letting somebody else have your way.”

“The art of pleasing is the art of deception.”

“And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the leaves 'It's pretty, but is it Art?'”

“A saboteur in the house of art and a comedienne in the house of art theory, Lawler has spent three decades documenting the secret life of art. Functioning as a kind of one-woman CSI unit, she has photographed pictures and objects in collectors' homes, in galleries, on the walls of auction houses, and off the walls, in museum storage.”

“Auction houses run a rigged game. They know exactly how many people will be bidding on a work and exactly who they are. In a gallery, works of art need only one person who wants to pay for them.”

“Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.”

“All in the Family was intellectual it was art.”

“I'm not interested in pop art.”

“What is art but a way of seeing?”

“I'm enamored with the art world. Anytime you look at anything that's considered artistic, there's a commercial world around it: the ballet, opera, any kind of music. It can't exist without it.”

“The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose.”

“Rule of art: Cant kills creativity!”

“It's high time for the art world to admit that the avant-garde is dead. It was killed by my hero, Andy Warhol, who incorporated into his art all the gaudy commercial imagery of capitalism (like Campbell's soup cans) that most artists had stubbornly scorned.”

“Poor Georgia O'Keeffe. Death didn't soften the opinions of the art world toward her paintings.”

“The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.”

“Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.”

“I realize that protest paintings are not exactly in vogue, but I've done many.”

“The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.”