Painting quotes

“- Cher: She's a full-on Monet.
- Tai: What's a 'monet'?
- Cher: It's like a painting, see? From far away, it's ok, but up close, it's a big old mess. Let's ask a guy. Christian, what do you think of Amber?
- Christian: Hagsville.
- Cher: See?”
Alicia Silverstone - Cher
Brittany Murphy - Tai
Justin Walker - Christian

“- 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

“That perhaps it's just picking up where religious art left off, somehow trying to show you divinity. The modern artist just pares it down to the basic elements of shape and color. But when you look at that Miró, you feel it just the same.”

Dennis Haysbert - Raymond Deagan

“- Michael J. 'Crocodile' Dundee: Who painted this?
- Curator: Pablo Picasso.
- Michael J. 'Crocodile' Dundee: I'm a drinkin' man myself, but I've never been that wasted.”

Paul Hogan - Michael J. 'Crocodile' Dundee
Nicholas Hammond - Curator

“- Jack Deebs: I'm a cartoonist. I drew all this. I have visions. I translate this.
- Frank Harris: You do nothing, man. This place exists with or without you. You believe me, right? I'm not one of your creations.
- Jack Deebs: Right. You're not pretty enough.”
Gabriel Byrne - Jack Deebs
Brad Pitt - Detective Frank Harris

“- Bruce Vail: I'm going to hang it in the royal suite of The Princess Irene.
- Irene Vail: By the neck until it dies?”

Charles Boyer - Bruce Vail

“Wanna know what's a crime? Whoever defaced that work of art by painting it that color... ought to have his ass removed.”
Clint Eastwood - Nick Pulovski

“- Kevin Langley: I can't sleep. I can't stop thinking about naked women. What about you?
- Mr. Bean: Whistler's Mother.
- Kevin Langley: Well, whatever turns you on!”

Andrew Lawrence - Kevin Langley
Rowan Atkinson - Mr. Bean

“- Gunnery Sgt. Burns: You are probably very familar with the conflict at Hill 442. Is that right?
- Ruggieri: Yes sir. Everyone has heard of that battle.
- Gunnery Sgt. Burns: And did you know your Colonel is personally responsible for pulling 52 marines off that hill? Alive. So don't you think the Colonel deserves to have his rocks painted tops...” (continue)(continue reading)

Fred Dryer - Gunnery Sgt. Burns
Sasha Mitchell - Ruggieri

“- Alexander Sebastian: That's almost great.
- Jill Baker: Who painted it?
- Alexander Sebastian: A woman. No man could be so malicious.”
Burgess Meredith - Alexander Sebastian
Merle Oberon - Jill Baker

“A tree. When I paint one, it sets everyone on edge. It's because there's someone or something hidden behind that tree. I can't help painting what's hidden behind things. To me a swimmer is already a drowned man.”

Robert Le Vigan - Le peintre

“- Aurora Greenway: I'm inviting you to come over and look at my Renoir.
- Garrett Breedlove: You're inviting me to bed.
- Aurora Greenway: It happens to be in my bedroom.
- Garrett Breedlove: Is the Renoir under the covers?
- Aurora Greenway: Don't cackle, Garrett. Do you want to see it?”
Shirley MacLaine - Aurora Greenway
Jack Nicholson - Garrett Breedlove

“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

“I've just spent fifteen thousand dollars for a painting I don't even like!”
Roy Scheider - Sam Rice

“- Jean Michel Basquiat: Ah, piss paint!
- Andy Warhol: Not piss paint, Jean, oxidation art!
- Jean Michel Basquiat: I hate cleaning brushes too.”
Jeffrey Wright - Jean Michel Basquiat
David Bowie - Andy Warhol

“- 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

“- Reporter 1: Why do you spend your time making underground films?
- Andy Warhol: It's easier than painting.
- Reporter 1: Which painters do you like best?
- Andy Warhol: Oh, all of them.”
Henry Cabot Beck - Reporter 1
Jared Harris - Andy Warhol

“I remembered why I loved paintings in the first place, what got me into this. I thought... dreamt... remembered... how easy it is for a painter to lose a painting. He paints and paints, works on a canvas for months, and then, one day, he loses it. Loses the structure, loses the sense of it. You lose the painting.”
Donald Sutherland - Flan

“- Bastian's Father: I got a call from your math teacher, yesterday. She says that you were drawing horses in your math book.
- Bastian: Unicorns. They were unicorns.
- Bastian's Father: What?
- Bastian: Nothing.”
Gerald McRaney - Bastian's Father
Barret Oliver - Bastian Balthazar Bux