Artist quotes

“Fuck Picasso.”
Ed Harris - Jackson Pollock

“- Danny Ocean: I always confuse Monet and Manet. Now which one married his mistress?
- Tess Ocean: Monet.
- Danny Ocean: Right, and then Manet had syphilis.
- Tess Ocean: They also painted occasionally.”
George Clooney - Danny Ocean
Julia Roberts - Tess Ocean

“I overpaid a bit for that, but I think its value is about to skyrocket. That's what usually happens when an artist dies.”
Millie Perkins - Bobby Nye

“- Belinda Mart: Ivan, why aren't you helping Josh set up the equipment?
- Ivan Alexeev: He's an artist. He's hands-on. You know what I do? I use my selling techniques to give my artist friend the personal freedom he needs. Freedom, choices, possibilities. That's what I'm about. The boring administrative stuff, you know? I envy him.”
Katy Boyer - Belinda Mart
John Cusack - Ivan Alexeev

“I'm not ambitious, not an artist, not a poet, not a revolutionary.”
Theresa Russell - Milena Flaherty

“You just pick on us because we're artists!”

“And of course, with the birth of the artist came the inevitable afterbirth... the critic.”
Orson Welles - Narrator (voice)

“You were a poet and a painter, William Blake. But now, you're a killer of white men.”
Gary Farmer - Nobody

“- Dairy Queen Photographer: Do you fancy yourself as some sort of artist or what?
- Anti-Artist: No, I'm an anti-artist.
- Dairy Queen Photographer: Oooooh, one of those neo-poseur types that hangs out in coffee shops, and... doesn't do much of anything. Yeah.”
Lucinda Scott - Dairy Queen Photographer
Wammo - Anti-Artist

“- David: I'm talking about Henry James, the author. Yeah? Well, this is where he lived and this is where he worked.
- Ray: Where did he eat? I'm hungry. I don't care where he lived. I want to know where he ate.”
Hugh Grant - David
Woody Allen - Ray

“That's our task. Liberation. Freedom. Let's toast to Lawrence. Let's toast to our defects. Toast, to our friendship. Drink cold, piss warm.”
Fred Ward - Henry Miller

“- Amanda Brooks: We're looking for Steve, we don't know where he went. He said he was gonna chuck it all, like Gauguin.
- Dream Girl: Who?
- Walter Stone: Gauguin. He's an artist who went to Tahiti.
- Dream Girl: I thought you said you didn't know where he went.”
Ellen Barkin - Amanda Brooks
Téa Leoni - Dream Girl
Jimmy Smits - Walter Stone

“I don't approve of, but I like people who think in terms of ideal conditions. They're the dreamers, poets, tragic figures in this world, but interesting.”
Cary Grant - Leopold Dilg

“I've been telling my friends it's so cool living with an artist. You never once asked to paint me nude!”
Wendy Schaal - Pamela

“Artists are always appreciated more after they're dead!”
Michael Douglas - Steven Taylor

“- Father Bobby: It was the Sistine Chapel he painted.
- John: Sixteenth Chapel?
- Father Bobby: Sistine Chapel.
- John: Who painted the other fifteen?”
Robert De Niro - Father Bobby
Ron Eldard - John

“I'll be the sculptor and you'll be the clay.”

Adolphe Menjou - Anthony Powell

“- Edward D. Wood, Jr.: We are going to finish this picture just the way I want it... because you cannot compromise an artist's vision.
- Reverend Lemon: But it's our money.
- Edward D. Wood, Jr.: And you're gonna make a bundle, but only if you shut up and let me do things my way.”
Johnny Depp - Ed Wood
G.D. Spradlin - Reverend Lemon

“- Lily Garland aka Mildred Plotka: He'll tell you what I am: a first-class passenger entitled to privileges.
- George Smith: Oh, an artist!”

Carole Lombard - Lily Garland aka Mildred Plotka
Ralph Forbes - George Smith

“- Dale Putley: I'm an actor. A writer at large. I produce plays, things from my soul. But it's avant-garde, very experimental.
- Jack Lawrence: You mean with guinea pigs?”
Robin Williams - Dale Putley
Billy Crystal - Jack Lawrence