Knowledge of the means to express our emotion is essential- and is acquired only after a very long experience.

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.

Inspiration is always a surprising visitor.

Satan is both a fashion designer and an interior designer. He first appeals to the eye and then shouts, “Gotcha!” Then he goes to work on the “inside job.

A glass is good and a lass is good And a pipe to smoke in cold weather The world is good and the people are good And we're all good fellows together.

It is perhaps sad books that best console us when we are sad, and to lonely service stations that we should drive when there is no one for us to hold or love.

I always lose the election in the polls, and I always win it on election day.

These poor kids in Baghdad have no running water, no showers. They wipe with baby wipes. My heart goes out to them.

Our time is fixed, and all our days are number'd; How long, how short, we know not:—this we know, Duty requires we calmly wait the summons, Nor dare to stir till Heaven shall give permission.

Critics haven't taught me my cricket, and they don't know what my body and mind are up to.

When I run into disappointment - say, for example, not getting a role I'd hoped for - I just try not to take it personally.

Before, you were only a dream. Now you're a dream come true