"Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something."
"It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done ..."
"Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep."
"Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you."
"There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people."
"There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time."