Movie quotes about art and artists

That's real music. It's dark and brooding. (Lucy)

A man becomes a critic when he cannot be an artist, the same way that a man becomes an informer when he cannot be a soldier. (Mike Shiner)

Writers don't retire. We either drink ourselves to death or blow our brains out. (Bill Bryson)

You were right. Music is all I understand. (Fred Ballinger)

Jackson Pollock. That's right. The drip painter. Okay. He let his mind go blank, and his hand go where it wanted. Not deliberate, not random. Some place in between. They called it automatic art. (Nathan)

Isn't it strange, to create something that hates you? (Ava)

Any dipshit can take pictures, Mason. Art, that's special. What can you bring to it that nobody else can? (Mr. Turlington)