Art quotes

“- Ella: I think it's only fair to warn you that I'm practiced in the ancient art... of Origami!
- Bluto: Paper folding?
- Ella: Oh... I was hoping you wouldn't know what that was.”

Anne Hathaway - Ella
Aonghus Og McAnally - Bluto

“That perhaps it's just picking up where religious art left off, somehow trying to show you divinity. The modern artist just pares it down to the basic elements of shape and color. But when you look at that Miró, you feel it just the same.”

Dennis Haysbert - Raymond Deagan

“Truth, like art, is in the eye of the beholder. You believe what you choose and I'll believe what I know.”
Kevin Spacey - Jim Williams

“With the ability to reproduce art, it is available to the masses. No one needs to own a Van Gogh original, they can paint their own. Van Gogh in a box, ladies! The newest form of mass-distributed art; paint by numbers.”

Julia Roberts - Katherine Ann Watson

“- Rosette LaRue: You could dream better if you'll get to sleep.
- Janie Barlow: I'm through dreaming. I'm gonna start doing. I'm going up where it's art: uptown.”
Winnie Lightner - Rosette LaRue
Joan Crawford - Janie Barlow

“When are you gonna realize that all of this art crap is a fraud? Otherwise, how could the same picture be worth $10 million or zip based on, what, a signature? Rembrandt is priceless. Donovan is worthless. That's not art. That's autographs.”
Jason Patric - Harry Donovan

“I've given my life to art and from here on in, the only art I will get anywhere near are the pictures I draw on the pavement hoping passersby will throw nickels in my hat. I guess the long on the short of it: I wish I'd never been born.”
Peter MacNicol - David Langley

“Modern art, to me, is nothing more than the expression of the contemporary aims of the age that we're living in.”
Ed Harris - Jackson Pollock

“- Peaches: The go-go happens to be a highly respected classical art form. It is interpretive dance in rock 'n' roll format...
- Lulu: In bikinis.”
Christina Whitaker - Peaches
Elizabeth Kaitan - Lulu

“- Serge: [taking notice to Axel Foley's interest in the artwork] I see you look at this piece.
- Axel Foley: Yeah. I was wondering how much something like this went for.
- Serge: One hundred and thirty thousand dollar.
- Axel Foley: Get the fuck out of here!”
Bronson Pinchot - Serge
Eddie Murphy - Axel Foley

“- Reverend Beebe: Looking at Italian art! You see, you talk of coincidence and fate. You're naturally drawn to things Italian, as are we and all our friends, aren't we, Freddy? That narrows the field immeasurably.
- George Emerson: It is fate. But call it Italy if it pleases you, Vicar.”
Simon Callow - The Reverend Mr Beebe
Julian Sands - George Emerson

“He really wants us to think what he's doing is art.”

Sigourney Weaver - Helen Hudson

“Technique is nothing more than failed style.”
Stephen Dorff - Cecil

“If you want to understand me, watch my movies.”
Robert Downey Jr. - Charles Spencer Chaplin

“While women will always be a problem for us, most of the great art in the world is about that very same problem. Good-looking people don't have any spine. Their art never lasts. They get the girls, but we're smarter.”
Philip Seymour Hoffman - Lester Bangs

“Life is a shitstorm, and when it's raining shit the best umbrella is art.”
Peter Falk - Pedro Carmichael

“It's a form of self-expression. Some people write books. Some people write music. I make speeches on street corners.”
Cary Grant - Leopold Dilg

“The line between art and garbage can be thin. Sometimes even artists cannot see it.”
Julian Sands - Terence Scopey

“- Mr. Potato Head: Look, I'm Picasso!
- Hamm: I don't get it.
- Mr. Potato Head: You uncultured swine! What're you lookin' at, ya hockey puck?”

Don Rickles - Mr. Potato Head
John Deszo Ratzenberger - Hamm

“Every great century that produces art is, so far, an artificial century, and the work that seems the most natural and simple of its time is always the result of the most self-conscious effort.”
Eddie Izzard - Jerry Devine

“You might love art, but art certainly doesn't respond to your affections.”
Maggie Smith - Lady Hester Random

“- Oscar the Grouch: This is where I wanna be grouch paradise! Just look it at. It's like a work of art.
- Telly Monster: It is different, Maria.
- Maria: Oscar, I want you to turn this car around right now and head for Toadstool!
- Oscar the Grouch: Ah, an angry face in a beautiful place, heaven.”

Caroll Spinney - Oscar the Grouch
Martin P. Robinson - Telly Monster
Sonia Manzano - Maria

“Just because a picture happens to be erotic, does not make it pornographic.”
Alison Steadman - Beverly

“- Jean Michel Basquiat: Ah, piss paint!
- Andy Warhol: Not piss paint, Jean, oxidation art!
- Jean Michel Basquiat: I hate cleaning brushes too.”
Jeffrey Wright - Jean Michel Basquiat
David Bowie - Andy Warhol

“We're no longer collecting art; we're buying people.”
Michael Wincott - Rene Ricard