Aphorisms for Everybody

P: "Nothing so resembles a daub as a masterpiece."--Paul Gauguin.

P: "Immortality in art is a disgrace."--F. T. Marinetti.

P: "Art happens--no hovel is safe from it, no prince may depend upon it, the vastest intelligence cannot bring it about."--James A. McN. Whistler.

P: "The artist is a selfish person whom we like, and the philanthropist an unselfish person whom we do not like."--:A. Clutton-Brock.

P: "If more than 10% of the population likes a picture, it should be burned, for it must be bad."--G. Bernard Shaw.

P: ". . . The people who make art their business are mostly impostors."--Pablo Picasso.

P: "I hate all Boets and Bainters."--George I of England.

For collectors of art--and of quotation marks--a critic-collector-connoisseur of modern art has compiled a booklet of such pungent, provocative aphorisms: Of Art--Plato to Picasso (Wittenborn; $1.50), published last week. Compiler Albert Eugene Gallatin, a painter himself, knows well the vicissitudes of collecting. His own famed "Museum of Living Art" is one of the finest collections of 20th-century art in the U.S.

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