I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.

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.

Brotherly love should be our number one principle as believers

Capitalism and altruism are incompatible; they are philosophical opposites; they cannot co-exist in the same man or in the same society.

I beg of you... never assume an inner or an outer pose, never a disguise.

I wouldn't say I'm a very original thinker, but if I have a good experience with something, I'll want to take it further or adapt it in some way.

The boundaries of culture and rainfall never follow survey lines.

Depression can be the sand that makes the pearl. Most of my best work came out of it.

On Halloween, witches come true; Wild ghosts escape from dreams. Each monster dances in the park.

The antidote to frustration is a calm faith, not in your own cleverness, or in hard toil, but in God's guidance.

I'm a chess piece. A pawn,' she said. 'I can be sacrificed, but I cannot be captured. To be captured would be the end of the game.

Mandarin is gonna be the language in 15 to 20 years.