I'm not willing just to be tolerated. That wounds my love of love and of liberty.

The Louvre is a morgue; you go there to identify your friends.

I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.

Be yourself. The world worships the original.

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.

Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.

Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.

The composer opens the cage door for arithmetic, the draftsman gives geometry its freedom.

Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.

Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts.

The more attention you put into being more loving, the more loving (and loved) you'll become.

There is a leader in every manager, there is not a manager in every leader.

Do you know that there's hardly anyone left of last year's Caucasian governments? I've tried to stop it, but in vain. Yet they can't all be Trotskyites and traitors.

Ask others about themselves, at the same time, be on guard not to talk too much about yourself.

Who doth desire that chaste his wife should be, first be he true, for truth doth truth deserve.

I do not exactly remember at what period I started my museum which absorbed so much of my time.

I wouldn't change a thing in my life, even if I could. What you go through makes you who you are and that's fine.

In a dark moment I ask, "How can anyone bring a child into this world?" And the answer rings clear, "Because there is no other world, and because the child has no other way into it."

Beached under the spumy blooms, we lie Sea-sick and fever-dry.

Thank God for the things that I do not own.