“Not to say people shouldn't get rich from art. I adore the alchemy wherein artists who cast a complex spell make rich people give them their money. (Just writing it makes me cackle.) But too many artists have been making money without magic.”

“I do not regard advertising as entertainment or an art form, but as a medium of information.”

“There are no contests in the Art of Peace. A true warrior is invincible because he or she contests with nothing. Defeat means to defeat the mind of contention that we harbor within.”

“I've never really had a hobby, unless you count art, which the IRS once told me I had to declare as a hobby since I hadn't made money with it.”

“All nature is but art unknown to thee.”

“A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and in the air above, and similarly a work of art is the product of strange activities in the human mind.”

“Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.”

“The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.”

“I think good art does come from a dark place.”