'I mean these pieces are great, but you've got to remember that art these days is a financial process. We're facing a recession, and the bottom's fallen out of the market.'

- Jasper Gibson

'...asking me to write about Kandinsky's arse no matter how nice it is, could be almost sacrilege'

- Sue Willis

'Wow! All my favourite arses on one grrreat web site'

- Callum McGeoch

'Bold, informative, witty and absorbent. For a mere fifty quid, you can own a piece of Mr Tripp's 'Arse History of Artistry', and they're definitely well worth the arse-king price!'

- Matt Abbiss

'These arses are resplendent in their clean, fresh lines, deft curvature and freshly scrubbed anal hygiene.Leonard Cohen's rump is clearly a fake, but his anonymous replacement has more than enough character - in his (or indeed her) presentation of a pair of plump, unctious cheeks and a coy ringpiece - to render all accusations of forgery utterly redundant. The artist's own arse, however, is a nightmare of wiry topiary, like a hairy planet being bissected by colossal geological turmoil, and should have remained in his pants in order to preserve the delicate sanity of frail, sensitive little children everywhere.'

- Matt V Evans

'pps I think it's a little pretentious of you to include yourself in the ranks of the classicists. actually it's quite offensive. I mean, who do you think you are? I hope Sir Nicholas refuses to let the self portrait into the exhibition. that'll show you. wanker.'

- Emily V Moore

'I don't know much about arse, but I know what I like'

- Dan Cornish

'Quite frankly I'm a a little disturbed! Where's Rembrandt's arse? Also I didn't realize there had been a revival in people being tarred and feathered.'

- Kyvan Mardani

'Never before has the arse been used so effectively as a gateway to the soul. A must-see.'

- Adam Chatterton

'A truly curvaceous selection of great buttocks through history with lasting cheek.'

- Francesca Gavin

'Something could come from these arses of yours!'

- John Robbins

'M-arse-terpieces. How we laughed. But much too cheap.'

- Anna Tripp