My method is simple: not to bother about poetry. It must come of its own accord. Merely whispering its name drives it away.

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.

We are so blinkered by progress, so preoccupied with where we want to go and how fast we can travel, that many of us have lost the ability to simply ‘stop’.

...most Substance-addicted people are also addicted to thinking, meaning they have a compulsive and unhealthy relationship with their own thinking.

The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close up.

Why are we asked to make the most important decisions of our lives when we are so young, and so prone to mistakes?

The country's present supply of foreign news depends largely on how best a number of dry goods merchants in New York think they can sell underwear.

Being a good example teaches others to be good.

You have yourself to blame.

Although elephants are far more distantly related to us than the great apes, they seem to have evolved similar social and cognitive capacities.

There is nothing god cannot do.

The pain itself is a product or a reflection of how I am interpreting whatever it is that is causing me pain.