History Quotes / MadArtist

"They called me mad. '''All''' artists are mad.''

->''[[{{Catchphrase}} Like I always say]], destruction is the purest form of art.''

->''People are worth nothing compared to my dolls! They're all shallow, depraved, ugly creatures! Dolls are perfect creations: the come to life or capture death by my hand! Their fate is chosen by me! I AM THEIR GOD!''
-->-- '''Kyogetsu Ujie''', ''Anime/HellGirl''

-->-- '''Commissar Vassiloff''', ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'', "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS5E149TheJeopardyRoom The Jeopardy Room]]"

->''"I've had twenty years to come up with the perfect trick. It's going to be my masterpiece; my Mona Lisa; my ''Series/BreakingBad'' Season Five! (They gave me cable in prison so I'd stop killing the guards.)"''
-->-- '''The Trickster''', ''Series/TheFlash2014''

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->'''Damien Pierson:''' It seems your friend the Doctor isn't quite the art lover I hoped he would be.
->'''Ace:''' ''If you've hurt him-''
->'''Damien Pierson:''' Don't be stupid, girl! I'm not going to hurt him... not yet. The final work would be sadly diminished if we wasted all our materials on the sketches.
->'''Ace:''' Sketches?
->'''Damien Pierson:''' All great works begin with sketches... but they are just pale echoes of what is still to come.
->'''Ace:''' And what's that, then, Damien? What have we got to look forward to? ''More'' [[SpookyPainting hallucinogenic paintings?]]
->'''Damien Pierson:''' My sculpture! My masterpiece! [[LargeHam The piece that will assure my place among the greatest artists in history!]]
-->--''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho: [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho021DustBreeding Dust Breeding]]''

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-->--'''Creator/EddieIzzard'''

->"Qualis artifex pereo!" (''"What an artist dies with me!"'')

->"Qualis artifex pereo!'"

-->-- '''The mastermind villain''' in ''Literature/AndThenThereWereNone''

-->-- '''The unnamed killer''', ''[[VideoGame/TheDevilInMe The Devil In Me]]''

->''[[CatchPhrase Like I always say]], destruction is the purest form of art.''

-->--'''Hitomi Ishigami''', ''Manga/RosarioToVampire''

-->-- '''Dr. Ruth Adams''' on ComicBook/TheJoker, ''ComicBook/ArkhamAsylumASeriousHouseOnSeriousEarth''

-->--'''Nicole Ryan,''' ''ComicBook/{{Hellblazer}}: City Of Demons''

-->--'''Lucifer (Circa 455 AD)''', while playing on a harp made of corpses, ''ComicBook/TheWickedAndTheDivine''

-->--'''Darth Momin''', ''ComicBook/DarthVaderDarkLordOfTheSith''

->'''Luigi Largo''': You're the street physician carving flesh sculptures!\\
'''Pavi Largo''': Paint your ass like Rambrandt! Ha! You like that?
-->--''Film/RepoTheGeneticOpera''

-->-- The mastermind villain in ''Literature/AndThenThereWereNone''

-->--'''Derkhan,''' ''Literature/PerdidoStreetStation''

->"Marcus is an expert. (Some say 'artist,' but I've never been very comfortable with labels.) He's a [[TortureTechnician bloody king of torture]], he is! Humans, demons, [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg politicians]], makes no difference. They say he [[WroteTheBook invented some of the classics]], but he won't tell me which ones."''
-->-- '''Spike''', ''{{Series/Angel}}'' ("In the Dark")

-->-- ''Series/DoctorWho'', "Bad Wolf"

-->--'''Will Graham,''' exploring the mindset of a killer, ''Series/{{Hannibal}}''

->'''King''': You'll never get off the ship.\\
'''Lenore''': It will become a floating tomb, drifting through space with the soul of the great Karidian giving performances at every star he touches.
-->-- ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'', [[{{Recap/StarTrekS1E13TheConscienceOfTheKing}} "The Conscience of a King"]]

->'''Dr. Crusher:''' (''observes sketches'') You should be drawing, not killing people.\\

-->-- ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', "The High Ground"

-->-- ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'', "The Thaw"

-->--'''Commissar Vassiloff''', ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959''

-->--'''The Trickster''', ''Series/TheFlash2014''

->''"This guy must have 500, maybe 600 bodies down there. Stuck up on the walls like some psycho version of the Sistine Chapel!"''