I owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.

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.

There is power in controlling something that can do so much damage-in controlling something, period.

The completely solitary self: that's where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and those crises are often very intimate also.

For our purposes you can consider it a small country between Germany and France." "But there isn't anything between Germany and France. Except Switzerland." "Precisely," said Jace.

Even in front of nature one must compose.

Things which do not require effort of some sort are seldom worth having.

Life isn’t about waiting for the time to come. It’s all about making the most of things in the time that is given to you.

Non-co-operation is a movement intended to invite Englishmen to co-operate with us on honourable terms or retire from our land.

I am never happier in the Lord than when I am in a bedroom with a sick person.

It accords with the most liberal spirit of philosophy to suppose that not a stone can fall, or a plant rise, without the immediate agency of divine power.

It's tough to fully believe in yourself sometimes.