“Two Arts degrees does not a life make.”

“Does life imitate art, or does art imitate life? I believe life imitates art the imitates life.”

“Art is action. The way I live my life to its highest degree is by writing, the practice of art.”

“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.”

“Your father is Dr. Lucas--one of the foremost minds in modern economics--and you're studying art? What the hell are you going to do with a degree in art?"She drew herself up to all five foot two, eyes flashing, and said, "I'm going to make the world more beautiful. What are you going to do? Make money?”

“Art is not life, and life is not art; but the beauty and horror of the human condition exists between the two.”