An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all.

The Louvre is the book in which we learn to read.

Keep good company - that is, go to the Louvre.

Time and reflection change the sight little by little 'till we come to understand.

People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.

Art is a harmony parallel with nature.

The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.

The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.

Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience.

Light is a thing that cannot be reproduced, but must be represented by something else - by color.

The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.

When you choose one way out of many, all the ways you don't take are snuffed out like candles, as if they'd never existed.

It was bewildering and humbling to keep discovering how many brave things people can fail to talk themselves out of doing.

I earned the right not to compete for a man.He wants me... Or... She is welcome to him...

I never said "I want to be alone." I only said "I want to be left alone." There is all the difference.

When I was a kid and I would play pretend, I would end up with blood everywhere and I would cut my feet up. I love the feeling of it being real.

I can still go grocery shopping and not get mobbed. But when I was in South Africa this summer, I had people asking for autographs, and that scared me.

The courts used to be, fair and square, the avengers of secular crimes; but nowadays they demand respect even for the criminal.

The U.S. has been a great friend all these years, but as soon as Africa found itself starting to move up, the U.S. is really disengaging.

I have never regarded myself as this or that. I have been too busy being myself to bother about regarding myself.

I live in Florida, and I live on a small lagoon. I sit and look out at the water all day - that's what my desk is.