Most art critics are failed artists, but so are most artists.
- Bob Kessel

Amateurs are afraid of being too bold. Professionals are afraid of being too timid.
- Bob Kessel

Drawing naked women
with straight lines is
like playing a love song
on a tuba.
- Bob Kessel

Some say my pictures are stiff.
I reply, “but my mind is flexible.
I prefer that to the other way around.”
- Bob Kessel

Note that I am drawing about art history, not writing about it. That is a crucial difference between me and art history academics.
- Bob Kessel

Vous êtes né,
Vous êtes devenu célébrité,
Et vous êtes mort comme un chien
dans un restaurant chinois.
-Bob Kessel

“真の芸術家の創造力は 無心な心の奥から 意図など無しに 湧き上がるものである”
- Bob Kessel

A true artist’s creativity springs up unbidden from a place of no mind.
- Bob Kessel

Artist is not a profession, it is an obsession.
- Bob Kessel

The only reason to be a professional artist is that you can’t help it.
- Bob Kessel

When life gives you lemons, make lemon still-lifes.
- Bob Kessel

I don't draw for others to love it. I draw because I love it.
- Bob Kessel