Anquetin an Artist Quotes in Moulin Rouge (1952)

Georges Seurat: Drink your drink, Henri, and then we will go to the Louvre and refresh our souls, eh?

Henri: The Louvre. That graveyard.

Gauzi: Graveyard! The home of the Mona Lisa, and he calls it a, a graveyard!

Anquetin an Artist: Ah, the Mona Lisa. Only the greatest painting in the world. At this moment I could kneel down and give thanks to Leonardo.

Henri: And how do you know it is the greatest painting in the world? And how do you know it was by Leonardo?

Anquetin an Artist: Because I feel it! I feel it here, in my heart.

Henri: I feel in my heart that you are a pompous ass, but that does not make it so.

Gauzi: Only Leonardo could have painted that smile. She smiles with her eyes!

Henri: I don't care if she smiles with her navel, that still doesn't say that Da Vinci painted it.

Anquetin an Artist: [hurt] If I hadn't needed this drink...

[he gulps it down]

Anquetin an Artist: -I'd have *thrown* it at him!