The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965)

Tomas Milian: Raphael

Quotes 

• Raphael : For what is an artist in this world but a servant, a lackey for the rich and powerful? Before we even begin to work, to feed this craving of ours, we must find a patron, a rich man of affairs, or a merchant, or a prince or... a Pope. We must bow, fawn, kiss hands to be able to do the things we must do or die.

  [chuckles] 

  Raphael : We are harlots always peddling beauty at the doorsteps of the mighty.

  Michelangelo : If it comes to that, I won't be an artist.

  Raphael : [scoffs]  You'll always be an artist. You have no choice.