Artist quotes

“Good artists copy, great artists steal.”
Noah Wyle - Steve Jobs

“- Harold Hutchins: Separate classes lead to separate lives, which inevitably leads to robots.
- George Beard: Wait, what? Why are there robots at the mall?
- Harold Hutchins: Cuz it's the future. The future always has robots.
- George Beard: Whoa, whoa, whoa! Why are the robots shooting other robots? Aren't they supposed to be friends?
- Harold...” (continue)(continue reading)
Thomas Middleditch - Harold
Kevin Hart - George

“An artist is someone who has learnt to trust in himself.”
Ed Harris - Ludwig van Beethoven

“- Art Loving Woman: It's fascinating, isn't it? He has such... freedom.
- Tommy DeVito: Hmm. They should take it away.
- Art Loving Woman: The painting?
- Tommy DeVito: His freedom.”

Nancy La Scala - Art Loving Woman
Vincent Piazza - Tommy DeVito

“Separate the art from the artist. This is L.A., nobody's ever who they appear to be. Other than John Tesh, who's probably exactly who he appears to be.”
Eric McCormack - Mark

“The artist is often merely the painter, and the dealer is actually the artist.”
Julian Sands - Terence Scopey

“A real artist creates beautiful things and puts nothing of his own life into them.”
Ewan McGregor - Curt Wild

“Hey, town's looking real good. We almost finished what Ma started. Those two are good, they'll fit perfectly. What I tell ya, huh? Ain't your work more real now? Ma would be proud, yeah, she'd be real proud. She always said your talent would make up for what God took away from you.”

Brian Van Holt - Bo

“The artist prays ever so gently, let me find pure all that can happen.”
Gordon Pinsent - Grant Anderson

“- Raymond Greenwood: Don't do this! He's just a goddamn dancer!
- Colonel Chaiko: Yes, I agree, not worth her life, is he? Vshtay!”

Gregory Hines - Raymond Greenwood
Jerzy Skolimowski - Colonel Chaiko

“- Freddie Miles: Don't you want to fuck every woman you see just once?
- Dickie Greenleaf: Just once?”
Philip Seymour Hoffman - Freddie Miles
Jude Law - Dickie Greenleaf

“- Hotel Manager: He's a maniac!
- Rock and Roll Manager: He's an artist!”

Michael Ensign - Hotel Manager
Bob Hoskins - Rock and Roll Manager

“If Da Vinci was alive today, he'd be eating microwave sushi, naked, in the back of a Cadillac with the both of us.”
Richard R. Grant - Darwin Mayflower

“He was a real artistic guy, sensitive, a painter. But he was always trying to find himself. He'd go out every night looking for himself. And on the way, he found Ruth. Gladys. Rosemary. And Irving. I guess you could say we broke up because of artistic differences. He saw himself as alive. And I saw him dead.”
Mya - Mona

“I'm not looking at you as a... man looks. I'm a painter. Painters have a different way of looking at things.”

Charles Laughton - Rembrandt

“- Eric Swan: What the hell are you doing in here?
- Regis Lamar: I'm Regis Lamar, from Chicago.
- Eric Swan: Hell! I don't give a shit if you're the Messiah from Jerusalem come here to make my life perfect! Nobody walks in this booth when I am making my art. Nobody!”
Martin Mull - Eric Swan
Tom Tarpey - Regis Lamar

“Do you ever think that if you attack an artist long enough you'll succeed in having him censor himself?”
Sir Kenneth Branagh - Peter McGowan

“- 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

“- Jamie Gangel: You know who Claude Monet is?
- Sandra Gangel: Jamie, don't make me out to be thick.
- Jamie Gangel: Who was he then?
- Sandra Gangel: He painted the Sixteenth Chapel.”
Glen Berry - Jamie Gangel
Linda Henry - Sandra Gangel

“Maybe in a past life I was a poet - or an artist.”
Noah Wyle - Steve Jobs

“- Preston: There's Van Gogh. Degas. Rodin. They didn't have agents. How'd they get so successful?
- Maddox: They died.”
James Remar - Preston
Philip Lenkowsky - Maddox

- Orlando Ramirez: My father was called Orlando. He rolled the finest cigars in Havana. "Orlando el Rey", they called him... "Orlando the King". Then Castro came along and my father was on his ass.
- Vladimir Ivanoff: Castro is a great man.
- Orlando Ramirez: Castro is a Cuban bullshit artist who has been taken in by Russian bullshit artists!
Alejandro Rey - Orlando Ramirez
Robin Williams - Vladimir Ivanoff

“- Rusty: I'm an artist, you know?
- Walt Koontz: Bullshit. You're a fucking drag queen.
- Rusty: Let me savour those lovely words for a moment. What are you, channeling Jesse Helms?
- Walt Koontz: Don't be so sensitive. You can take a dick, you can take an insult.”
Philip Seymour Hoffman - Rusty
Robert De Niro - Walt Koontz

“You don't see artists sitting around a lot, talking about ideology. They find out what they believe, and what they're doing, by doing it.”
Peter Coyote

“I think actors and artists in general live in a different kind of world.”
Ron Rifkin