Art Alchemist Gifts

'Cartoonist thinking'

Circa 1928, The Reese's Candy laboratory.

'Have you tried our home-made wine?'

"But until I do transmute lead into gold, maybe I could interest you in some lovely lead jewelry."

'I want ideas so bold, so wildly innovative, so undeniably brilliant that they retain a shred of originality after everyone picks them to pieces.'

Flour, sugar, earth, air, fire, water.

'There are two types of alchemy - there's organic and there's inorganic.'

"I don't know, it's just the whole Dark Ages thing. It's got me down."

'You have received a grant from the king - his secret incantation to chant over your experiments.'

'It's an experiment to stop time.'

'But why do you want to transmute asparagus into cotton?'

'Picasso'

'I'm trying to turn gold into gasoline.'

'I think that's enough brain defragging for today.'

"You'd be amazed how just a little soybean meal adds to the protein content of powdered bats wing and next tails."

"It's less of a spell than it is a signature scent."

'Think outside the seed.'

Pavlov's dog eats Schrodinger's cat.

'Why Isaac Newton kept returning to alchemy...' 'There's just no money in gravity.'

"Of course you can't replicate my experiments. That's the beauty of them."

'Have no fear - I'll have the project completed for you in no time.'

'Why bother recreating the 5,000-year-old recipe fo the ancient Egyptians, when there's already one that old at the back of the fridge?'

"And yet, I too am a still life."

The writer: something who devotes a lifetime of solitude to the same of communication.

"I was going to transmute it into gold, and then I read that the base metal market has made a remarkable recovery!"

"I envy you—laughing all day long, and being paid for it, too!"

"Garbage in, great books out."

"Ulrich, that's bad science and you know it!"

"Since I've been using this organic stuff my potions are far more effective."

Scientific Tea.

"After all these years, I'm sure of only one thing: when I heat the liquid, it boils."

"He's done it your majesty! He's turned lead into a screenplay!"

"He has a little place in the basement where he's trying to transmute amethysts into antibiotics."

Everything he touches turns to bronze. King Midas' third cousin.

"Your immortality tonic may not be worth it, Sol."