Brushstroke Virtuoso Mugs

A recurring problem in Van Gogh's later years.

Harmon Silas, calculating the thousand words his picture is worth, wonders what do do with contractions.

'I love these afternoon jam sessions.'

'I'm glad you like it, but I haven't started it yet.'

Using teamwork to paint a lamppost.

Painter's muse

"Ok, let's sneak up on Mr. Canvas and see if we can make a good impression."

Artist painting a dancer.

"Harold finds painting very therapeutic."

"He hasn't the heart to discharge her. She's been with him for years."

Artist Paints Picture to Bring in the Money.

"We were already in this room—I remember that hideous Renoir."

"Well it's a lovely piece passed down to you by your father. How did he acquire it?"

Rembrandt, Surfer Dude.

The art of painting

'It's the Titanic, afterwards.'

"One lyrical landscape—heavy on the Wyeth, light on the Expressionism."

'Three thousand of those, four thousand of those, five thousand of those...'

'Oscaar? Where aaaare you? Portrait time!'

'Wood is expensive and art does not pay'

Another Famous 'First Meeting:' Monet and Manet.

Claude Monet

Devil and Angel Fighting over Artist.

"What's come over you since Friday, Miss Schemke?"

"No honestly, your work is good, it's just not instagram good."

Camille Pissarro

Paint pot - "It does exactly what it says on the tin."

Perfect sincerity; or, tinkings aloud No. II - Artists being critical of each other's work

"This is your studio? It's just an apartment."

The self-portrait.

"Paint something nice."

"I don't know who he is, Muriel, but he's strange and doesn't know how to paint."

"Sotheby's extends its deepest sympathies and wonders whether the deceased might have owned any early German Expressionist pieces."

'Beautiful, consummate painterly skill, which we all know is old hat, and therefore, not for us.'