Sometimes I imagine colors as if they were living ideas, being of pure reason with which to communicate. Nature is not on the surface, it is deep down.

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.

With your head full of brains and your shoes full of feet, you're too smart to go down any not-so-good street.

Just like you can’t punish anyone without punishing yourself, you can’t love anyone without loving yourself.

Affliction equips the suffering to empathize with others in anguish and not only does it strengthen them, it enables them to be consoling comforters in a world full of hurt.

Wait for me.” The words come out choked and pained. “I need you to wait for me.

Every one on the earth should believe that he has something to give to the world which cannot otherwise be given.

To me, I'm still a 24-year-old kid who just happens to have a better paying job than other kids my age.

I believe in getting a good education to be able to go out into the world and make a difference.

We really think health savings accounts were kind of invented in Indiana.

I must really confess right here, the attraction was purely physical.

The crisis of the Western world exists to the degree in which it is indifferent to God.