Painting quotes

“- Alice Keach: The painting, when will we be able to see all of it?
- Birkin: I don't know. It's a bit like a jigsaw. A face, a shoe, here a bit, there a bit. It comes together very slowly, if it comes together at all. Of course, after... 500 years I can't be sure what I'll find.
- Alice Keach: But that's the exciting part, isn't it? Not knowing...” (continue)(continue reading)
Natasha Richardson - Alice Keach
Colin Firth - Birkin

“- Kiki: You know that painter that found the stuffed cat? She wants to do a picture of me.
- Jiji: Naked?”
Minami Takayama - Kiki
Rei Sakuma - Jiji

“- Katherine Ann Watson: 25 years ago, someone thought this was brilliant.
- Betty Warren: Who?
- Katherine Ann Watson: My mother. I painted it for her birthday.”

Julia Roberts - Katherine Ann Watson
Kirsten Dunst - Betty Warren

“- Chon Wang: The painting! It's looking at me!
- Roy O'Bannon: It looks like it's looking at me too. That's great.”
Jackie Chan - Chon Wang
Owen Wilson - Roy O'Bannon

“That's the great thing about painting. If you don't like something, you just paint right over it and start fresh.”
Alison Eastwood - Samantha

“- Scott: Man, this Hieronymus Bosch is heavy!
- Museum Guard: That's because he deals with man's inclination towards sin, in defiance of God's will.
- Scott: I didn't mean it like that.”

Todd Sible - Scott
Ken Kerman - Museum Guard

“I painted flowers, women and children. It's like I painted the crime right into them. I'd see crime in a rose.”

Robert Le Vigan - Le peintre

“You must forgive my curiosity, madam, and open your knees.”

Anthony Higgins - Mr Neville

“- Deb: What are you drawing?
- Napoleon Dynamite: A liger.
- Deb: What's a liger?
- Napoleon Dynamite: It's pretty much my favorite animal. It's like a lion and a tiger mixed... bred for its skills in magic.”
Tina Majorino - Deb
Jon Heder - Napoleon Dynamite

“I drew a perfectly good map. Well, there were a few smudges on it, okay! I went outside the line with a green crayon, but not much.”
Dom DeLuise - Fagin

“Families are very important and Even though Mr. Whistler was prefectly aware that his mother was a hideous old bat who looked like she'd had a cactus lodged up her backside, he stuck with her, and even took the time to paint this amazing picture of her. It's not just a painting. It's a picture of a mad old cow who he thought the world of.”
Rowan Atkinson - Mr. Bean

“This is his self-portrait. There's no camouflage, no romance. Honesty.”

Julia Roberts - Katherine Ann Watson

“- David: So, you can see the difference between this Tintoretto and the earlier Byzantine painting we looked at? What would you say is the most significant difference?
- Ray: Me? I'd say the frame's bigger here.”
Hugh Grant - David
Woody Allen - Ray

“I'll tell you what you know about paint, man: you don't know nothing about paint, man. You know what you know about? You know about how to bitch and how to eat and how to bitch and how to shit and how to bitch! But you don't know nothing about paint, so don't tell me when it's going to be done. I'll tell you when it's going to be done.”

Abel Ferrara - Reno Miller

“There's nothing more boring than looking at paintings. Only reason anyone ever comes to an art gallery is to get laid.”
Rufus Sewell - Frank

“You know, that was the hardest part about having to portray you, grinning like an idiot every fifteen minutes.”
Dougray Scott - Sean Ambrose

“My job is to sit and look at paintings. So, what have I learned that I can say about this painting? Well, firstly, it's really quite big, which is excellent. because If it were really small, you know, microscopic, then hardly anyone would be able to see it. Which would be a tremendous shame.”
Rowan Atkinson - Mr. Bean

“- Interviewer: How do you know when you're finished with a painting?
- Jackson Pollock: How do you know when you're finished making love?”
Ed Harris - Jackson Pollock

“- Saul Kaplan: That's for you.
- Erica: How the hell am I gonna get it home?
- Saul Kaplan: Take a taxi.”

Alan Bates - Saul Kaplan
Jill Clayburgh - Erica

“I think, instead of passport photographs, they should let you do a drawing of yourself.”
Joyce Deans - Stephanie

“- Trendy Man: Mr. Melon, your wife was just showing us her Klimt.
- Thornton Melon: You too, huh? She's shown it to everybody.
- Trendy Man: Well, she's very proud of it.
- Thornton Melon: I'm proud of mine too. I don't go waving it around at parties, though.
- Trendy Man: It's an exceptional painting.
- Thornton Melon: Oh, the painting.”
Timothy Stack - Trendy Man
Rodney Dangerfield - Thornton Melon

“Careful there. Those are worth more than you'll ever make in your lifetime. I grew up with it my whole life. You can take it for a couple of minutes.”

Shirley MacLaine - Aurora Greenway

“He painted what he felt, not what he saw. People didn't understand, to them it seemed childlike and crude. It took years for them to recognize his actual technique.”

Julia Roberts - Katherine Ann Watson

“- George Henderson: What the hell did you do that for? It's my drawing! Why'd you change it?
- George Henderson Sr.: Cool down, George, it's just a piece of cardboard.
- George Henderson: Not to me. It means something to me! Can't you see that he means something to me?”

John Lithgow - George Henderson
M. Emmet Walsh - George Henderson Sr.

“- Lee Krasner: You're not just randomly putting paint on the canvas, you're painting something. You can't abstract from nothing, you can only abstract from life, from nature.
- Jackson Pollock: I am nature.”
Marcia Gay Harden - Lee Krasner
Ed Harris - Jackson Pollock