I cannot attain the intensity that is unfolded before my senses. I have not the magnificent richness of colouring that animates nature.

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.

What good is money if it can't buy happiness?

All progress of humanity happened because humans wanted to be loved and appreciated.

If mankind's destined to bite the bullet, let's bite it and be damned.

Prayer is the supreme activity of all that is noblest in our personality and the essential nature of prayer is faith.

And so, resisting the temptation to wallow in artistic remorse, I prefer to leave both well and ill alone and to think about something else

History is too slow for our life, for our hearts.

You must have complete determination. The worst opponent you can come across is one whose aim has become an obsession.

Hunting is a family thing for me, and it's a Texas thing. We have a lot of land in Texas that's been in our family for 12 generations.

Call me an extremist but killing a few hundred million people seems like the sort of method that might have unintended consequences.

You dont fall into love. You commit to it. Love is saying I will be there no matter what.