Since these mysteries exceed my grasp, I shall pretend to have organized them.

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.

Always put yourself around people who want to succeed because when they succeed you will to succeed as well.

In a mist the heights can for the most part see each other; but the valleys cannot.

The only creature less fashionable in academia than the stereotypical 'dead white male,' is the dead white male on horseback.

Auctions are bizarre combinations of slave market, trading floor, theatre and burlesque... a lot of people are going to be making a lot of excuses or maintaining that they were never part of this.

God grant that I may never live to be useless!

Good ideas are free - or at least they should be.

The results you produce in life are inversely proportional to the degree to which you are intimidated.

A sweet thing, perspective - a chance to see your enemies so small.

I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor....'