I am still searching for the expression of those confused sensations that we bring with us at birth.

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.

One must not make too much of anything in life, good or bad.

To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces. The sea air, sunshine, and patience, Watson—all else will come.

the bible gives me a deep comforting sense that (things seen are temporal, and things unseen are eternal.

There are books stacked high around them - the way opportunity and possibility are stacked around them.

James loved Rhode Island, ... He loved the ocean. He would sit in his beach chair for hours and look out at the ocean.

If I had a hotdog in my hand, he would've had tomato ketchup on his face.

Love is a constant source of inspiration, surprise, and wonderment.

Words are for explaining the mistakes we might have made, names are for calling when there is nothing left to say.

I want to get everybody out of the shadows, get the economy working, and not let employers like Donald Trump exploit undocumented workers, which hurts them, but also hurts American workers.

There is in man a higher than love of happiness; he can do without happiness, and instead thereof find blessedness.