"We live in an age when the traditional great subjects - the human form, the landscape, even newer traditions such as abstract expressionism - are daily devalued by commercial art."

"I'd asked around 10 or 15 people for suggestions. Finally one lady friend asked the right question, 'Well, what do you love most?' That's how I started painting money."

"Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art."

"Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art."

"Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit."

"I've never seen an obese person who has said, 'I am well in my mind.' Happiness stops food being a compensation."

"There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible."

"For pure joy, I look at a small painting by Arbit Blatas. An ocean liner is at the center of the composition, perhaps ready to depart. It holds the promise of discovery."