Horace Murphy

Kitty March: You know those art galleries on Fifth Avenue? The prices they charge! I saw one little picture that cost fifty-thousand dollars. They call it, uh, 'Seezan'.

Christopher Cross: Cezanne? Oh, he was a great French painter. I'd like to own that painting.

Kitty March: You would? For fifty-thousand dollars?

Christopher Cross: You can't put any price on masterpieces like that. They're worth, well, whatever you can afford to pay for them.

Kitty March: You know what, Chris? I bet I saw some of your pictures there and didn't know it. Next time I'll look for your name.

Christopher Cross: Oh no no no no no. I, uh... I don't sell my pictures.

Kitty March: Well not in New York you mean.

Christopher Cross: No, I-...

Kitty March: I know. I bet your sell your pictures in Europe, France or someplace like that. I don't know much about painting, but I bet your get as much for your pictures in France as those Frenchman get right here in New York. You're never appreciated in your own country.

Christopher Cross: Well that's one way of looking at it. But you know when I paint, I don't think of money. I just paint for fun.

Kitty March: Fun?

Christopher Cross: Yes. I think it's the most fun I know, painting. I wish I had all the time to paint.

Kitty March: But don't you have time?

Christopher Cross: [stammering] Well you know... business takes a lot of time.

Kitty March: I wonder when you get all that money.

Kitty March: How long does it take you to paint a picture?

Christopher Cross: Sometimes a day, sometimes a year. You can't tell. It has to grow.

Kitty March: I never knew paint could grow.

Christopher Cross: Feeling grows. You know, that's the important thing, feeling. You take me. No one ever taught me how to draw, so I just put a line around what I feel when I look at things.

Kitty March: Yeah I see.

Christopher Cross: It's like falling in love I guess. You know... first you see someone, then it keeps growing, until you can't think of anyone else.

Kitty March: That's interesting.

Christopher Cross: The way I think of things, that all art is. Every painting, if it's any good, is a love affair.

Kitty March: I never heard anyone talk like that before.

Christopher Cross: There aren't many people you can talk to this way. So you keep it to yourself. You walk around with everything bottled up.