Anybody who has ever wondered about the nature of art will find here some of the answers, given by those who knew - or thought they knew - more about it than the rest of us. Art critics and writers, rather than the artists themselves have usually been most eloquent on the subject, but this collection of quotations includes many of the amusing, conflicting and thought-provoking comments that artists have made about their own work, about other artists' work, and indeed about art in general.