“All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principles of equal partnership.”

“Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.”

“Patience is the art of hoping.”

“Art usually only makes the news in America when the subject is money.”

“It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.”

“Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in our bones. It scoops the stuffing out of us, and chucks us aside. Alas!”

“After its hothouse incubation in the seventies, appropriation breathed important new life into art. This life flowered spectacularly over the decades - even if it's now close to aesthetic kudzu.”

“So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs.”

“One of the most amazing things about mathematics is the people who do math aren't usually interested in application, because mathematics itself is truly a beautiful art form. It's structures and patterns, and that's what we love, and that's what we get off on.”