Art quotes

“If you are primarily concerned with something called personal artistic integrity, you don't belong in the business of making pictures.”
David O. Selznick

“Nothing's gonna make it go away, until someone changes something, which is not going to happen. I can't pretend it isn't there because that it is a lie, and when art lies, it becomes worthless.”

Steve Martin - Davis

“Feed the body food and drink, it will survive today. Feed the soul art and music, it will live forever.”
Julie Andrews - Catherine

“- Meneer Chrome: This is an Anglo-Dutch garden, madam, with French influence. We have progressed from flowers. A garden is a celebration of art's triumph over nature.
- James Fitzmaurice: We shall be the fucking flowers. We shall provide the color and scent as we walk among the gravel paths.”

Ewan McGregor - Meneer Chrome
Richard R. Grant - James Fitzmaurice

“Art is something to be proud of. Art is no compromise.”
Christian Bale

“I sang and nobody listened, I painted and nobody cared to look, I killed 4 people and what happens? A work of art.”
Daniel Craig - Perry Smith

“I don't want life to imitate art, I want life to be art.”
Meryl Streep - Suzanne Vale

“Great art is about conflict and pain and guilt and longing and love disguised as sex, and sex disguised as love... and let's face it, you got a big head start.”
Philip Seymour Hoffman - Lester Bangs

“Yesterday we fond 16,000 pieces of art in a copper mine. It seems the Germans take better care of their art than people.”
George Clooney - Frank Stokes

“When I moved to Kansas City I asked the question: was I going to be an actor, or an artist? From then on, all I thought about was animation.”
Thomas Ian Nicholas - Walt Disney

“Of course there are standards! Otherwise, a tacky velvet painting could be equated to a Rembrandt! There are standards! Technique, composition, color, even subject.”

Kirsten Dunst - Betty Warren

“- Randol Schoenberg: It's hard to believe Hitler once applied to be an art student here.
- Maria Altmann: I wish they'd have accepted him.”
Ryan Reynolds - Randol Schoenberg
Helen Mirren - Maria Altmann

“I just want to thank the student who drew the crude caricature of me in the boys' lavatory, although you were kind in your portrayal, I would like it if you kept your talents to the art class.”
Roddy McDowall - Mr. Dante

“The art of good business is being a good middleman. Putting people together.”
Daniel Craig - XXXX

“My works were designed to amuse, annoy, bewilder, mystify and inspire reflection.”
Man Ray

“- Art Dealer: It appears to be of 12th century Tuscan design...
- Pistachio Disguisey: I knew it was old, you fool! Let me appraise you… you're an idiot. A complete and total idiot!”
Vincent Castellanos - Art Dealer
Dana Carvey - Pistachio Disguisey

“Our art is a reflection of our reality.”
O'Shea Jackson Jr. - Ice Cube

“- Kermit the Frog: What's wrong with the drummer? He looks a little crazed.
- Zoot: Oh, he's just upset about missing the Rembrandt exhibit at the National Gallery.
- Animal: Renoir!”
Jim Henson - Kermit the Frog
Dave Goelz - Zoot
Frank Oz - Animal

“- Police Officer: You guys supposed to be somewhere?
- Jerry Heller: These are artists.
- Police Officer: Rap is not an art.
- Jerry Heller: You cannot come down here and harass my clients because of what they look like.”
David Donah - Police Officer
Paul Giamatti - Jerry Heller

“Cerebration is the enemy of originality in art.”
Martin Ritt

“At summer's end, I plan on moving to New York where I'll pursue a career as a serious actress. It's my goal to entertain the world through artistic expression. Through art, I shall serve my country.”
Sarah Michelle Gellar - Helen Shivers

“All I do know is that whatever it is, acting, writing, music, plays, I just want to be a part of it all.”
Zac Efron - Richard Samuels

“I don't know the difference between Picasso and a car crash.”
Burt Reynolds - General Newton

“Okay, you've gone belly up in Shit's Creek. You need a paddle real bad. What do you reach for? Art!”
Peter Falk - Pedro Carmichael

He offered you parts in Cats? I thought you hated Cats. You said it was an all time low in a lifetime of theatre going. You said, "Aeschylus did not invent the theatre to have it end up a bunch of chorus kids in cat suits prancing around wondering which of them will go to kitty-cat heaven".
Catherine Kellner - Tess