A man can do all things if he but wills them.

Beauty is the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole.

I certainly consider a great appreciation of painting to be the best indication of a most perfect mind.

A common error of ignorance is to maintain that what one does not know does not exist.

No art, however minor, demands less than total dedication if you want to excel in it.

A man can do all things if he will.

We must always take from nature what we paint and always choose the most beautiful things.

It is very rarely granted even to Nature herself to produce anything absolutely perfect in every part.

There is no art which has not had its beginnings in things full of errors. Nothing is at the same time both new and perfect.

When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I seem to be living among the gods.

The city is like a great house, and the house in its turn a small city.

He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.

Do your best

I believe in the immortality of the soul because I have within me immortal longings.

We have 200, 000 kids a year who drop out of the French school system and have no hope. They become a drag on society.

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

I got an email from my ex, telling me that she has AIDS. I didn't know how to comfort her, so I just wrote back I know.

Take action once a day to do something that ignites your life.

Life is priceless even to an ant.

I get nervous calling myself an artist. I feel I'm more like an interpreter or a violinist, you know.

Science doesn't care, by and large, what the answers are. It's only interested in getting the right answer. And journalism should be very much that way.