Lust for Life (1956)

Roy Gordon: Elderly Gentleman

Quotes 

• Durand-Ruel : [outaide the Exhibit of Impressionist Paintings]  I am sick and tired of these cheap jokes! Art is a serious business. And in Paris at least, an artist with a new idea should be inside...

  Elderly Gentleman : [interrupts]  For once I agree with you Durand-Ruel. Impressionism is not a joke: it's a *cancer*, and it must be cut out. Condone anarchism in the arts and you seal the doom of France!

  Durand-Ruel : What whould you do? Pad up the galleries and ship the painters off to Devil's Island?

  Elderly Gentleman : These men are shameless! They load pistols with tubes of paint and fire them at the canvas, and then have the audacity to sign their names; Cézanne, Signac, Pissaro, Gauguin, Renoir, Monet...

  [scene fades out]