“Art comes from the world, belongs to it, can never escape from it.”

— William Saroyan, My Heart's in the Highlands, 1939

About William Saroyan

1908 – 1981

American writer, author of "The Human Comedy".

“Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell.”

“All things lie dark in possibility.”

“Genius is play, and man's capacity for achieving genius is infinite, and many may achieve genius only through play.”

“If music be the food of love, play on.”

“Beauty is the mark God sets upon virtue.”

“If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being.”

“The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness.”

“Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.”

“Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.”