Arthur Smith

When a writer dies you get a higher standard of obituary.

I have a suspicion that a lot of artists are trying to get a laugh but, unlike stand-ups, they don't get an immediate response from their audience; a laugh is a rare thing in a gallery.

The real change that paintings undergo is in the perceptions of the viewer.

Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.

Terrorists are not 100 feet tall. Nor do they deserve the abject fear they seek to instill.

Why do men fight who were born to be brothers?