Lack of manners is the sign of a hero.

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.

A problem is an opportunity to see your life through another window.

Life is your own movie. Not Gods.

You can’t translate somethingthat was never in a languagein the first place.

Maybe I should drown myself before I freeze to death?

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.

If they played more blues, people would just get it - they try to hold it back but just about can't hold it back now because the blues is really going.

I had not found a new religion but I had found a new faith.

Faith in Christ is able to endure doubts-it's able to endure temptations-bec ause it faces them, not because it pretends they're not there.

So it's worth some real up front time to think through the long term value and the defensibility of the business.