I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom; I am one who is fond of olden times and intense in quest of the sacred knowing of the ancients.

Fine art is knowledge made visible.

I have never seen either angels or goddesses, so I am not interested in painting them.

Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it.

Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal.

The principle of realism means denial of the ideal.

Beauty lies in nature and reveals, once the artist has perceived it, its own expressive power.

To be able to translate the customs, ideas and appearance of my times as I see them - in a word, to create a living art - this has been my aim.

When I am no longer controversial, I will no longer be important

Titles have never given a just idea of things; were it otherwise, the work would be superfluous.

The beautiful is in nature, and it is encountered under the most diverse forms of reality. Once it is found it belongs to art, or rather to the artist who discovers it.

If you believe that you are not omnipresent, omniscient, and ultimately omnipotent, then you are deluded.

President-elect Donald Trump is not happy that he lost the popular vote. And this stat is probably not going to make him feel any better.

A shower would minimise the risk of contracting the disease.

Always my collections are made of different influences.

The right to reticence seems earned only by having nothing to hide.

Partisan politics has no place in the classroom.

I was born in France. My father was a renowned French philosopher and journalist, and my mother was a painter. So I grew up in Parisian intellectual circles.

It doesn't matter that you didn't believe in us," said Mr. Ibis. "We believed in you.

I wanted to become me, totally me. The more me, the better. I instinctively knew this and I was right.

Americans understand that one of our great national strengths is innovation. Great innovators - Benjamin Franklin, Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and others - are household names.