The painter’s instrument is his armchair.

Art should be something like a good armchair in which to rest from physical fatigue.

— Henri Matisse

“The armchairs, with their flat, sedentary cushions, were designed for society, but the bed was made for solitude. It had a straitened and measured…

— Amit Chaudhuri

From a distance, everyone will be able to read text, enlarged and limited to the desired subject, projected on an individual screen. In this…

— Paul Otlet

By legend and perhaps by nature philosophers are more accustomed to the armchair than the workbench.

— Ian Hacking

When I paint a woman in an armchair, the armchair is there to show illness and death-or as a protection.

— Pablo Picasso

I dream of an art of balance, of quietness, something analogous to a good armchair.

— Henri Matisse

You can't do business sitting on your ... armchair!

— Feargal Quinn

If rehearsed eye-rolls and sneers and armchair psychology worked, and were interesting, Fox wouldn't be number one.

— Dagen McDowell

“Soapy Sam looked as though he had just sat down on a favourite armchair which had gone missing.”

— John Mortimer

Breakfast is served on my Herend china and I sit in an old armchair so I can read the papers.

— Princess Michael of Kent

“An armchair is always an armchair, to the modern child, never a ship, never a desert island. The pattern on the wall are patterns;…

— Daphne du Maurier

“I only meant, you know, you shouldn’t be wasting your time on imbeciles. I know how hard it is to find the right person,…

— Paul Murray

“Of what good is an armchair of velvet when the rest of the environment does not match? It is like a man going around…

— Søren Kierkegaard

“And then one day, you too disappear. Your armchair is still there. But instead of you sitting in it, there is just an empty…

— Eckhart Tolle

“And nobody has the right to judge a soldier from the warmth and safety of their armchair.”

— Karen Traviss