“Life is serious but art is fun!”

“It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.”

“She was an expert at the art of sudden appearance.”

“People regard art too highly, and history not enough”

“Lilly was not crazy. She left a serious suicide note.'Sorry,' said the note.'Just not big enough.”

“You are my work of art," Wilbur Larch told Homer Wells. "Everything else has just been a job. I don't know if you've got a work of art in you," Larch concluded in his letter to Homer, "but I know what your job is,and you know what it is, too.”

“If (a writer) has applied himself to an art for 15 or 20 years and they’ve gotten good at it, and they’re expected to do something else to support themselves while the industry that sells this craft supports itself very well, something is badly wrong. Morally wrong.”