“After all, a love of art is a fine thing for a young boy, but art is long—and life can be pretty damned long too, without our just desserts!”
“Life isn't long enough for love and art.”
“Art is long. Life is short. A picture can become for us a highway between a particular thing and a universal feeling.”
“Fine art is something wonderful that's left long into the future ... eternal beauty.”
“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 realized that the longing for art, like the longing for love, is a malady that blinds us, and makes us forget the things we already know, obscuring reality.”