"Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic." ― Ambrose Bierce Topic(s): Art Tags: painting More From Ambrose Bierce "Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white." "Experience – the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced." "Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two." More In Art "Life doesn’t imitate art, it imitates bad television."― Woody Allen "Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life."― Oscar Wilde "Painting is by nature a luminous language."― Robert Delaunay