Let's try another set of notable quotables. Once again, I will give you a quotation, nationality, and dates of birth and death. You have to figure out who made the statement.


    1. "Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures". (American, 1813-1887)

    A. Norman Vincent Peale
    B. Henry Ward Beecher
    C. Joseph Franklin Rutherford

answer one

    2. "Man seems to be a rickety poor sort of a thing any way you take him, a kind of British Museum of infirmities and inferiorities. He is always undergoing repairs." (American author, 1935-1910)

A. Walt Whitman
B. John Steinbeck
C. Mark Twain

answer two
    3. "You wouldn't ask Rodin to make an ugly sculpture, or me to make a film with an ugly woman." (Filmmaker, 1928-2000)

A. Roger Vadim
B. Bob Woodward
C. Ambrose Bierce

answer three
    4. "I ain't really got it that bad. I'm just happy to be here." (Musician, b. 1970)

A. Little Richard
B. Lenny Kravitz
C. Puff Daddy

answer four
    5. "Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic." (American journalist, b. 1931)

A. Andy Rooney
B. Dave Barry
C. Dan Rather

answer five
    6. "A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small parcel." (Philosopher, 1818 - 1900)

A. John Ruskin
B. Thomas Paine
C. Joseph Addison

answer six
    7. "Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself." (American author, 1897 - 1962)

A. Herman Melville
B. Ernest Hemingway
C. William Faulkner

answer seven
    8. "Americans like fat books and thin women." (American commentator, b. 1925)

A. Dan Rather
B. Steve Powers
C. Russell Baker

answer eight
    9. "All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt." (American cartoonist, 1922 - 2000)

A. Walt Disney
B. Joseph Barbera
C. Charles M. Schulz

answer nine
    10. "Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could." (American First Lady, 1744 - 1818)

A. Frances Cleveland
B. Dolley Madison
C. Abigail Adams

answer ten
    11. "A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us." (European author, 1883 - 1924)

A. Franz Kafka
B. Alexander Pope
C. Goethe

answer eleven
    12. "Man cannot live by bread alone; he must have peanut butter." (American President, 1831-1881)

A. Chester A. Arthur
B. James A. Garfield
C. Millard Fillmore

answer twelve
    13. "Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them." (Author, b. 1932)

A. Umberto Eco
B. E.M.Forster
C. Aldous Huxley

answer thirteen
    14. "Don't write so that you can be understood, write so that you can't be misunderstood." (American President, 1857-1930)

A. Theodore Roosevelt
B. William McKinley
C. William Howard Taft

answer fourteen
    15. "Here is the real domino theory - gay man to gay man, bisexual man to straight woman, addict mother to newborn baby, they all fall down and someday it will come to you." (American author, b. 1953)

A. Anna Quindlen
B. Jessica Savitch
C. Fran Lebowitz

answer fifteen

SCORING:12-15 right answers makes you an art smart genius.
8-11 right and you're an art smart cookie.
5-7 right and you're having an art attack.
Fewer than 5 right and you're in art failure!

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