“If the world were clear, art would not exist.”

“I don't know if I'm making myself clear, but if I were to accept this business of conceptual art I would have no reason to exist.”

“Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist”

“If people were more concerned with how they looked on the inside, then on the outside, the world would be a nicer place to exist.”

“Not all is certainty in our world, Karigan. If it were there'd be no opportunity for faith; and then it would be a very dull existence.”

“Visionary idealism is a male art form. The lesbian aesthete does not exist. But if there were one, she would have learned from the perverse male mind.”

“One must give value to their existence by behaving as if ones very existence were a work of art.”

“If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.”

“Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus. It would be as dreary as if there were no [Virginias]. There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The eternal light with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished.”

“If life were enough for vitality, there would be no art.”