Pleasure must be found in study.

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.

Anybody who doesn't think I want the Lakers to win is a fool. But I'm no homer.

I was too lazy to read, and I was even too lazy to imagine scenarios drawn up by the pictures. They just suggested a flavor to me. I swallowed them whole, like hosts. It was a form of worship.

Greatness is in the preparation, not in the performance.

[Christians] practiced moderation and chastity in marriage, for example, and Galen was puzzled at how they were able to do so. His comments are a kind of back-handed compliment, I suppose.

I am definitely an individual.

I think once you're a mother, you kind of always see your kids as a baby anyway no matter how old they get.

I wished I stayed at the movies, where I could have at least had some popcorn with my drama.

You came from a source.

It is silliness to live when to live is torment.