Painting quotes

“- 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

“The government stepped in and banned tulip trading. Overnight, the market crashed. Thousands were left destitute. All this stemmed from a love of beauty, a passion for flowers whose lives are even briefer than our own. But while the blooms had faded, the paintings remained.”
Holliday Grainger - Maria

“I am in orbit around you, I am suspended weightless over you like the blue man in the Chagall, hanging over you in a delirious kiss.”

Steve Martin - C. D. Bales

“Now I'm a painter. That was another opportunity I was able to pursue, I've been painting all my life, now it's become a second career because of my success in the movies.”
Tony Curtis

“- Ma Flodder: Where did you find that? That face I haven't seen for ten years.
- Johnnie: It was under your bed.
- Ma Flodder: Away with that. I don't want to be involved with your father.
- Dochter Kees: Is that my father?
- Ma Flodder: His father, not yours.”

Nelly Frijda - Ma Flodder
Huub Stapel - Johnnie
Tatjana Simic - Dochter Kees

“If you're a real painter, you'll paint because you can't live without painting. You'll paint till you die.”
Alfred Molina - Diego Rivera

- Walter Shit: Congratulate me! This is my first work to use paint! I call it "Instant minority". I did the whole block!
- Joe: But people are black or white, not purple.
- Walter Shit: Periwinkle. It's periwinkle!
Jim Turner - Walter Shit
Jerry O'Connell - Joe

“All representations of a thing are inherently abstract. A drawing of a thing is not the thing itself. Not is a t-shirt of a drawing of a thing the thing itself.”
Shailene Woodley - Hazel

“- Chloe: Isn't it fun to paint?
- Ricky: I love it! Really calms me down. Frogs aren't purple by the way. Have you ever seen a purple frog?
- Chloe: Yes.
- Ricky: Okay, when? When you were asleep?”
Makenzie Vega - Chloe
Vince Vaughn - Ricky

“I studied all about Gauguin. He was a banker. He was a banker who - he used to paint on Sundays. And one day he hated himself for painting on Sundays.”
Anthony Quinn

“I liked sculpting better than painting. You have more freedom in sculpting.”
Anthony Quinn

“Wishing a Van Gogh was mine, I looked at my English hand-lasted shoes, and thought of Van Gogh's tragic shoes, and remembered me I was a painter losing a painting.”
Donald Sutherland - Flan

“- Rose DeWitt Bukater: I believe you are blushing, Mr. Big Artiste. I can't imagine Monsieur Monet blushing.
- Jack Dawson: He does landscapes.”

Kate Winslet - Rose Dewitt Bukater
Leonardo DiCaprio - Jack Dawson

“I'm going to go home, mix some paint, and try to create something original.”
Alan Rickman - Ed

“To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society.”
Man Ray

“- 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

“- Edith Cushing: She looks quite...
- Lucille Sharpe: Horrible?
- Edith Cushing: Yes.
- Lucille Sharpe: It's an excellent likeness.”

Mia Wasikowska - Edith Cushing
Jessica Chastain - Lucille Sharpe

“You have to look at paintings diffently from the way you look at other things. More closely and see what it says to you.”
Joan Plowright - Sophie

“Painting puts me into an alpha state. It's a private event.”
Callum Keith Rennie

“I have to paint at least two times a week, and there's not enough time in the day to do everything.”
Mary Lynn Rajskub

“I've always loved painting, although I never show anyone what I've done. Mainly because I don't do it well. But it's like a form of visual diary for me. A way of fixing things in my mind.”
Dame Judi Dench

“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 don't want to be a film-maker. I think painting is far more exciting and profound.”
Peter Greenaway

“- Ramona Calvert: You smell just delicious, Justin, you wearin' cologne?
- Justin Matisse: No, just sweat with a little paint thinner mixed in.”
Gena Rowlands - Ramona Calvert
Harry Connick Jr. - Justin Matisse

“- Rudy: Manuel! What the hell are you using, water based paint?
- Manuel: Sure. How much rain do we get around here anyway? If you don't like these, I'll get you some others. Here is my inventory.
- Rudy: Manuel, this is a picture of 250 cars. I can't make a deal on a picture. Take these around back and I'll think of something.”

Kurt Russell - Rudy Russo
Alfonso Arau - Manuel