The course of a river is almost always disapproved of by the source.

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.

THE INTENTION OF LIFE IS NOT TO REMAIN, BUT TO EVOLVE TO SOMETHING BETTER THAN IT WAS BEFORE AT EVERY STAGE, AND FINALLY, TO SOMETHING WONDERFUL.

I realized I could only play-act at the spiritual life as long as my appetites were stronger than my empathy.

The world is a complicated place, and there's a lot of division between people. The performing arts tend to unify people in a way nothing else does.

People like us who are on their last leg can only understand comedies.

This was long before the term 'single-parent family' came into use; back then it was a 'broken home'.

I live art, I respect people, and I've found what I want to do in life - I've found what makes me happy.

Saints are only sinners who keep trying.

A great man scarcely knows how he dines, how he dresses; but without railing or precision, his living is natural and poetic.

I do not walk away in the face of adversity and never have.

The only catalogue of this world's goods that really counts is that which we keep in the silence of the mind.