Artist quotes

“When I was younger I thought I was an artist, and inspiration would just come to me.”
Stockard Channing

“I think it's much richer and much more fun to be an artist than to be anything else. I can't think of a better life than acting.”
Edward Herrmann

“As an artist, I can't be responsible for how people interpret material.”
Vince Vaughn

“I don't use the word 'artists' lightly.”
Ciarán Hinds

“When I left school, I wanted to be an artist, specifically a painter.”
Jonathan Pryce

“He's a producer-slash-director-slash weirdo. He's like the Jim Jarmusch of S&M.”

Joaquin Phoenix - Max California

“- Betty: Sounds screwy to me. I can't imagine a real artist wanting to spend time looking at that kisser.
- Clayton Boone: Oh, yeah? Well, this kisser wasn't so bad that you couldn't lay under it a couple of times.”
Lolita Davidovich - Betty
Brendan Fraser - Clayton Boone

“There once was a lad from Australia, who painted his ass like a dahlia, the color was fine and likewise the design, but the aroma -whew!- that was the failure.”
Bryan Brown - Lt. Peter Handcock

“I've always liked the minds of criminals, they seem similar to artists.”
Richard Linklater

“I don't know how to pronounce it: Miró. I don't know why, but I just adore it. The feeling it gives. I know that sounds terribly vague.”

Julianne Moore - Cathy Whitaker

“- Carly Jones: This Vincent guy is quite the artist.
- Wade: Yeah. I think this Vincent guy needs therapy.”
Elisha Cuthbert - Carly Jones
Jared Padalecki - Wade

“You know, your audience isn't even born yet.”

Gary Leonard Oldman - Albert Milo

“I read once about a woman whose secret fantasy was to have an affair with an artist.
She thought he would really see her. He would see every curve, every line, every indentation and love them because
they were part of the beauty that made her unique.”
Sean Biggerstaff - Ben Willis

“Artists have the power, through our imagination to escape and degenerate world and create a better one.”
Toby Jones - Truman Capote

“I now do what other people only dream. I make art until someone dies. See? I am the world's first fully functioning homicidal artist.”
Jack Nicholson - Joker

“Today, a man from Germany invaded Greece. He's already swallowed Poland, Denmark, Norway and Belgium. He's bombing London as I speak. Everywhere this man goes, he crushes the life and the freedom of his subjects. He sews yellow stars on their lapels, he takes their voices. In this country, we still have our voices. We can argue with them, and we...” (continue)(continue reading)
Liev Schreiber - Orson Welles

“An artist without freedom is like a bird without wings.”
Elya Baskin - Anatoly

“Artists convey emotion. They make an audience feel what they're feeling.”
John Corbett - Mr. Torvald

“She knows nothing about international politics, she has the mind of an artist, she sees people as general humanity, not as separate races.”
Robert Taylor - Mark Preysing

“But where are the artists? Artists are the worst whores of all!”
Steven Skybell - Bertolt Brecht

“- Richard Samuels: Think of this as an investment, mother. An investment in my future as some kind of artist.
- Grandmother Samuels: Like your Uncle Frank. He never kept a steady job his whole life.”
Zac Efron - Richard Samuels
Marlene Sidaway - Grandmother Samuels

“Not everyone can become a great artist; but a great artist can come from anywhere.”
Peter O'Toole - Anton Ego

“Artists communicate through their work.”
Charles Dance - D.W. Griffith

“- Ben Willis: I've always wanted to be a painter, maybe have my work hung in a gallery one day.
- Sharon Pintey: I've always wanted to meet a painter.
- Ben Willis: Why?
- Sharon Pintey: I think it might have something to do with their ability to see beauty in everything.”
Sean Biggerstaff - Ben Willis
Emilia Fox - Sharon Pintey

“- Nick Starkey: Ed, I think it'd be best if you don't come in the apartment.
- Ed: You got it. I'm an artist. I'll watch the woman.”

Kevin Kline - Nick Starkey
Alan Rickman - Ed