12 Movie Quotes about Painting (Sound Clips)

Last updated on: July 17, 2025

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

1 Do you think she's pretty? -She's a full-on Monet. -What's a Monet? -It's like the paintings, see? From far away it's okay, but up close it's a big old mess.

Quote from Clueless (1995)

2 You know what the real _ of it is? It's paint-by-number.

Robin Williams as Dr. Sean Maguire in Good Will Hunting

3 I must look pretty weird standing here looking at myself in a painting.

James Franciscus as Mike Longstreet in Longstreet

4 This reproduction, it's really excellent. I saw the original in Paris at the Impressionist Museum. -No, you didn't.

Quote from Airwolf (1984)

5 That's the big guy. Quite a paintbrush he's got. -Yep.

Marlon in The Truman Show

6 Get this paint off of me, you rundown Rembrandt!

Mel Blanc as Daffy Duck in Daffy Duck's Easter Egg-Citement

7 It's brilliant, genius. Looks like polar bears eating marshmallows in a snowstorm.

Jim Cummings as Tigger in The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

8 Explain love to me, Chuck. -I can recommend a book or a painting or a song or a poem, but I can't explain love.

Quote from It's Arbor Day, Charlie Brown

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

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

10 Don't worry. It doesn't have to be a miracle. If you can paint, I can walk.

Irene Dunne as Terry McKay in Love Affair (1939)