“- Ben Willis: I've always wanted to be a painter, maybe have my work hung in a gallery one day.
- Sharon Pintey: I've always wanted to meet a painter.
- Ben Willis: Why?
- Sharon Pintey: I think it might have something to do with their ability to see beauty in everything.”
Sean Biggerstaff - Ben Willis
Emilia Fox - Sharon Pintey

“- Henry Miller: I'm not a portrait painter.
- June Miller: I'll say you're not. Look what you've done to Anaïs. You make everything ugly! Beauty is a joke for you. You're so negative. You're a failure as a writer. You're not a man, you're a child! You use women! You used me, you fucker!”
Fred Ward - Henry Miller
Uma Thurman - June Miller

“She knows nothing about international politics, she has the mind of an artist, she sees people as general humanity, not as separate races.”
Robert Taylor - Mark Preysing

“I'm not one of you anemic creatures who can get nourishment from a lettuce leaf - I'm a musician, I'm an artist! I have zest and appetite - and I like food!”
Mary Astor - Sandra Kovak

“I don't approve of, but I like people who think in terms of ideal conditions. They're the dreamers, poets, tragic figures in this world, but interesting.”
Cary Grant - Leopold Dilg