It's not just about looking and copying, it's about feeling too

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.

Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music.

Inspiration works on the same sense as humans, quite generous yet impatient. When it calls, better respond there and then or it moves shop.

...I don't want to mar the moment with questions. By not asking too much, you can believe in almost anything.

Unless I accept my faults I will most certainly doubt my virtues.

Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked.

During the campaign for re-election, Barack Obama at least made vague references to a willingness to accept $3 trillion of reduced spending in exchange for a $1 trillion dollar tax increase.

When people try to read between the lines - critics, they have a job. Their job is to make something bigger than it is.

Every parent in America has the total power to control all television programming that is dispatched to their home today.

If you come into my house, I'm going to hurt you.

So, twice a week, I go to a beauty salon and have my hair blown dry. It’s cheaper by far than psychoanalysis, and much more uplifting.