77 Movie Quotes about Art (+ Sound Clips) - page 5

Updated: Dec 23, 2025

Memorable quotes about art, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

41 Why are you here, Trojan? To study our arts and culture? -Yes, my lady. The art of self-preservation.

Jacques Sernas as Paris Of Troy; Rossana Podestà as Helen Of Troy in Helen of Troy (1956)

42 As I grow old, this picture will remain always young. If it were only the other way. If it were I who was always to be young and the picture that was to grow old.

Hurd Hatfield as Dorian Gray in The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)

43 You were right. There can be something fatal about a portrait.

Hurd Hatfield as Dorian Gray in The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)

44 The music comes down in the darkness, distills it. Cleanses it of the suffering that made it. And it's all beauty.

Claude Rains as Erique Claudin in Phantom of the Opera (1943)

45 Yeah, that's a very interesting mixture of poetry and meanness.

James Stewart as Alfred Kralik in The Shop Around the Corner (1940)

46 This isn't art. This is sex!

Paul Newman as Reggie "Reg" Dunlop in Slap Shot (1977)

47 And, as I always say, if it's not Baroque, don't fix it.

David Ogden Stiers as Cogsworth in Beauty and the Beast (1991)

48 You know something? I love art. Bad, good, I love it.

Telly Savalas as Lt. Theo Kojak in Kojak

49 You know, any man that can put so much violence and sex into a piece of stone, he doesn't have to violate flesh. He gets his kicks with his hammer and chisel.

Telly Savalas as Lt. Theo Kojak in Kojak

50 I drew the duck blue because I've never seen a blue duck before. And to be honest with you, I wanted to see a blue duck.

Adam Sandler as Billy Madison in Billy Madison

77 Movie Quotes about Art (+ Sound Clips) - page 5

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