“Everything you can imagine is real.”

“Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.”

“Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.”

“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 in love is well done.”

“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.”