“What use, after all, is man, if not to teach God His lessons?”

“Goodness is nothing in the furnace of art.”

“Tell me, before you call us servants, who served whom? And who, I wonder, in your generations, will immortalize you?”

“To create art with all the passion in one's soul is to live art with all the beauty in one's heart.”

“art is risk made visible”

“Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.”