Andy Warhol

Art is anything you can get away with.

Andy Warhol

A Coke is a Coke and no amount of money can get you a better Coke than the one the bum on the corner is drinking

Evelyn Waugh

Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct, and to refrain from destruction.

Edward Weston

No painter or sculptor can be wholly abstract.  We cannot imagine forms not already existing in nature, - we know nothing else. . . .I have proved, through photography, that Nature has all the "abstract" (simplified) forms Brancusi or any other artist can imagine.  With my camera I go direct to Brancusi's source.  I find ready to use, select and isolate, what he has to "create."  [1932 letter to Ansel Adams]

Oscar Wilde

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

Oscar Wilde

There was no fog in London until Whistler started painting it.

Oscar Wilde

It is not art that imitates life, but life that imitates art.

Oscar Wilde

The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.

Oscar Wilde

All art is quite useless.  [Preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray]

David Wilson

Any man who pretends to be happy about a day in a shopping mall - like a man who agrees to go on a date to an art gallery - is simply hoping it will lead to sex.  [This Age We're Living In, 2007]

Wittgenstein

The limits of my language are the limits of my world

Albert Wolff

They [Impressionists] take a canvas, colors, and brushes, place a few random touches, and sign the result.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.