I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.

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.

The real evidence of growing older is that things level off in importance.

The more one chases the quanta, the better they hide themselves.

As I kissed her the heat of her body increased, and it exhaled a wild, untamed fragrance.

His daily prayer, far better understood in acts than in words, was simply doing good.

Fingernails are for opening things and toenails are for storing precious minerals off the ground.

No nation, no society, no community can hold its head high and claim to be part of the civilized world if it condones the practice of discriminating against one half of humanity represented by women.

if I had one ambition it was to make my life itself into a poem.

America is a country of excess.

I just broke up with my boyfriend, so I'm officially single. But one thing I find unbelievably annoying is all these guys in my life who want to save me.

The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.