“Though a living cannot be made from art, art makes life worth living. It makes starving, living.”

“It is the useless things that make life worth living and that make life dangerous too: wine, love, art, beauty. Without them life is safe, but not worth bothering with.”

“I am interested in art as a means of living a life; not as a means of making a living.”

“The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable.”

“The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land.”

“If the two meanings of 'heart' are 'center' and 'part,' then the word 'art' also forms a perplexing doubleness: it is something human-made with materials; that is, it is made of us. Art is life. And yet it is distinct from 'life.' Art is life's counterpoint. We make it, and in that making, art is pointedly not life. It is just made of us.”