It's so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.

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.

I've always dreamed to win the Champions League with Real Madrid and we are only one step away to win it

I don't have any children; I have four middle-aged people.

Hell is not all paved with bad intentions.

Not only do I not know what's going on, I wouldn't know what to do about it if I did.

Let, then, the word be preached, and the sins of men will be rebuked, lust will be restrained, and some oppositions will be made against sin, though that be not the effect aimed at.

Whenever someone wonders how I could have written 57 books, I remind them that Isaac Asimov wrote 500 books.

Each book gets harder, each book gets harder and harder. I always feel like crying when I have to write.

Simple is the language of truth.

Faith is the soul going out of itself for all its wants.

To an artist a metaphor is as real as a dollar.