The smell of opium is the least stupid smell in the world.

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.

My name is Danielle. I'm eighteen. I've been stealing things for as long as I can remember.

To abstract is to draw out the essence of a matter. To abstract in art is to separate certain fundamentals from irrelevant material which surrounds them.

A man's idee in a card game is war- crool devastatin' and pitiless. A lady's idee iv it is a combynation iv larceny embezzlement an' burglary.

Last winter when I was coming home from church one Thursday evening, I saw somebody run around the house again. I told my father of that.

I feel so fortunate. I was brought up along the beaches in Southern California, and then got to have horses.

When it comes to categorizing people, men and women into a group, it gets to be very dangerous.

I practice staying calm all the time, beginning with situations that aren't tense.

My initial career, really, as a baby, was as a singer.

If people don't find what you are doing threatening, then it is probably not very important.

I go to bed at 4 a. m. Almost all chessplayers do.