Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.

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.

Only the Maker makes a man.

Why we are hanging around with inequality concept every day, it is like comparing water with the bread.

I write against the religion because if women want to live like human beings, they will have to live outside the religion and Islamic law.

Compassion, along with love, is the face of altruism.

I can't think of anything that people probably wouldn't already have heard of.

Seas are the fields of combat for the winds; but when they sweep along some flowery coast, their wings move mildly, and their rage is lost.

We unified, we looked past and we're impervious to the constant criticism of naysayer.

That's the beauty of the future. We get to change it.

Because reason...is the only thing that makes us men, and distinguishes us from the beasts, I would prefer to believe that it exists, in its entirety, in each of us.

Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.