Art quotes

“Look who's here. The big Broadway success. I don't write hits. My plays are art. They're written specifically to go unproduced.”
Rob Reiner - Sheldon Flender

“- Gredin: Technique will give way to expression.
- Donald Falk: Thank you.
- Gredin: Or expression will give way to expression.
- Donald Falk: You have some thoughts you'd like to share with us?
- Gredin: Me? Thoughts? Share? Nah, I couldn't possibly. I am here to listen and learn. Copy and conform.”

Johnathon Schaech - Gredin
Xander Berkeley - Donald Falk

“Andy Warhol is art. We must ask ourselves, does Andy imitate life or does life imitate Andy?”
Paul Williams - Warhol PR

“There's a point where art is not subjective, and my example for that is Picasso.”
Danny Huston

“To live an artistic life, it's a blessing.”
Elias Koteas

“Art does imitate life.”
Christian Slater

“- Darwin Mayflower: The last ingredient in the recipe is Da Vinci's model of a helicopter...
- Minerva Mayflower: ...on display for three days only at the Louvre in Paris.
- Hudson Hawk: As opposed to the Louvre in Wisconsin?
- Darwin Mayflower: Shut up, you're going to make me lose my place!”
Richard R. Grant - Darwin Mayflower
Sandra Bernhard - Minerva Mayflower
Bruce Willis - Hudson Hawk

“If people would just look at the paintings, I don't think they would have any trouble enjoying them. It's like looking at a bed of flowers, you don't tear your hair out over what it means.”
Ed Harris - Jackson Pollock

“The arts are weapons of understanding and weapons of happiness.”
Richard Charles Hastings Eyre

“Everyone in my family is in the film business; I knew I wanted to be creative and it was important in my family to be artistic.”
Sofia Coppola

“My cartoon strips in college strived to have the Schulzian mix of surrealism and Charlie Brown angst.”
Bob Peterson

“Movies aren't just supposed to be a representation of reality. They're supposed to be an art.”
James Mangold

“The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art.”
John Lasseter

“My love affair with the greatest medium of expression has never faltered. It embraces all other art forms.”
King Vidor

“It's hard to be an artist and be true to the reality of the world you want to create and also make it entertaining and successful financially.”
Antoine Fuqua

“I don't want to be a film-maker. I think painting is far more exciting and profound.”
Peter Greenaway

“Oh, come on people, don't be so pathetic. Stop looking at the world through your cellphone screens. Have a real experience! Does anybody give a shit about truth other than me?”
Edward Norton - Mike

“Style is the answer to everything... a fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous thing. To do a dull thing with style is preferable to doing a dangerous thing without style. To do a dangerous thing with style is what I call art. Bullfighting can be an art. Boxing can be an art. Loving can be an art. Opening a can of sardines can be an art.”
Ben Gazzara - Charles Serking

“What is art? What makes it good or bad, and who decides?”
Julia Roberts - Katherine Ann Watson

“The Western world is breaking down. Socially, politically, economically, morally, aesthetically and psychologically. Really, if you look into your own lives there are only two routes of escape from this dark claustrophobic trap: art and romantic love.”
James Toback - Leo Boscovitch

“I knew just as surely, just as clearly, that life is not a work of art, and that the moment could not last.”
Robert Redford - Narrator

“The picture a mother's son does in jail hangs on her wall as proof that beauty is possible even in the most wretched. And this is a much different idea than fancier notion that art is a scam and a ripoff.”
Michael Wincott - Rene Ricard

“Come on, Illeana, you didn't fall for James Costa. Someone as beautiful and powerful as you doesn't fall for a faggy art dealer. Okay?”
Ethan Hawke - Costa

“You're so ugly you could be a modern art masterpiece!”
R. Lee Ermey - Gny. Sgt. Hartman

“Lord, we have no need for animals - art alone will save the world. Let's see, we'll need two of everything: two poets, two painters, two musicians...”

Judy Davis - George Sand