Chatter about art is almost always useless.

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.

Ours is the age of substitutes: instead of language, we have jargon: instead of principles, slogans: and, instead of genuine ideas, bright ideas.

The thing is, I don't want to be sold to when I walk into a store. I want to be welcomed.

There is not one standard definition of beauty or one perfect size.

I would be very surprised if on another planet we discovered a species as intelligent as humans that didn't have narrative, or didn't have art in general.

America is now a socialist economy. The definition of a socialist economy is when 50% or more of your economy is dependent on the federal government.

The way evolution always discovers reasons is by retroactive endorsement.

Hope and fear are inseparable. There is no hope without fear, nor any fear without hope.

What the people call eloquence is the facility some persons have of speaking alone and for a long time, aided by extravagant gestures, a loud voice, and powerful lungs.

I knew people were independently publishing, and I buy books on Amazon. I began seriously considering it when Amanda Hocking was in the news about her self-publishing success.

Talk is cheap. Words are plentiful. Deeds are precious.