Art quotes

“- Twinkie: You know that famous painting? The one with the woman smiling all the time?
- Shawn Boswell: The Mona Lisa?
- Twinkie: Right, right, right the Mona Lisa. Well look man, this car right here is like the Mona Lisa of the drift world.”
Shad Moss - Twinkie
Lucas Black - Shawn Boswell

“There's nothing more boring than looking at paintings. Only reason anyone ever comes to an art gallery is to get laid.”
Rufus Sewell - Frank

“- Dwight 'Bucky' Bleichert: I don't get modern art.
- Madeleine Linscott: I doubt modern art gets you, either.”
Josh Hartnett - Dwight 'Bucky' Bleichert
Hilary Swank - Madeleine Linscott

“- Pepe: The art sure is ugly, man.
- Neil: That's how much you know, man. You know, the uglier the art, the more it's worth.”
Tommy Chong - Pepe
Cheech Marin - Neil

“I have this terribly archaic notion that art should be about beauty... and passion... and, well, redefining an imperfect world in a perfect way.”
Brendan Fraser - Fletcher McBracken

“- David Langley: What exactly is your position at the gallery?
- Mr. Bean: I sit in the corner and look at the paintings.
- David Langley: Ach! That is brilliant! If only more scholars would do that, not lecture and write and argue, but just sit and look at the paintings themselves. Now that is brilliant.”
Peter MacNicol - David Langley
Rowan Atkinson - Mr. Bean

“I've always believed that a portrait captures a person far better than a photograph. It truly takes a human being to really see a human being.”
Halle Berry - Leticia Musgrove

“- Rita: You didn't really mean to kill yourself. You were just...
- Trish: Just what, darling? Poor Susan. You think you've got everything, don't you?
- Rita: Trish, you have.
- Trish: Oh yes. When I listen to poetry and music, then I can live. You see, darling, the rest of the time it's just me. And that's not enough.”
Julie Walters - Rita
Maureen Diane Lipman - Trish

“I'm a guy who can't function well in life but can in art.”
Woody Allen - Harry Block

“Nor art nor nature ever created a lovelier thing than you, cousin Tess. To see that pretty mouth pouting and puffing away, without producing a single note.”

Leigh Lawson - Alec d'Urberville

“Our battle, our struggle, is to create art. Our weapon is the moving picture. Because we have the moving picture, our paintings will grow and recede; our poetry will be shadows that lengthen and conceal; our light will play across living faces that laugh and agonize; and our music will linger and finally overwhelm, because it will have a context...” (continue)(continue reading)
John Malkovich - Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau

“These Italian liners, ya know, they couldn't compete for speed, so they built these floating art palaces instead.”
Gabriel Byrne - Murphy

“- Warren: Who glued these quarters down?
- A.J.: I did.
- Warren: What the hell for, man?
- A.J.: I don't feel that I need to explain my art to you, Warren.”
Brendan Sexton III - Warren
Johnny Whitworth - A.J.

“You've caught so many terrorists, it's an art. You're like Rembrandt with a grenade.”
Shelley Berman - Zohan's Father

“- Marisa North, Bina North: He's painting our roses again!
- Dylan North: It's art.
- Jimi North: You can't call it art unless you have talent.”
Jessica Habib - Marisa North
Jennifer Habib - Bina North
Drake Bell - Dylan North
Little JJ - Jimi North

“You wouldn't know a masterpiece if it bit you in the ass.”

Tracey Ullman - Frenchy

“All human activity lies within the artist's scope.”
Paul Bettany - Geoffrey Chaucer

“It's art. You give it up, you were never an artist in the first place.”

Nick Nolte - Lionel Dobie

“Stop talking, and look. You're not required to write a paper. You're not even required to like it. You are required to consider it.”

Julia Roberts - Katherine Ann Watson

“He painted what he felt, not what he saw. People didn't understand, to them it seemed childlike and crude. It took years for them to recognize his actual technique.”

Julia Roberts - Katherine Ann Watson

“Christian, you may see me only as a drunken, vice-ridden gnome whose friends are just pimps and girls from the brothels. But I know about art and love, if only because I long for it with every fiber of my being.”
John Leguizamo - Toulouse-Lautrec

“The trouble with this kind of art is that you can't collect it...”

“- Reuben Feffer: Whose party is this again?
- Sandy Lyle: It's an art opening for this Dutch guy, Jost. His art sucks, but he used to sell me really good pot.”
Ben Stiller - Reuben Feffer
Philip Seymour Hoffman - Sandy Lyle

“All the Schlegels are exceptional. They are British to the backbone, of course, but their father was German, which is why they care for literature and art.”
Prunella Scales - Aunt Juley

“Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.”
Woody Allen - Gabe Roth