The world doesn't understand me and I don't understand the world, that's why I've withdrawn from it.

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.

And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed.

Wherever you go, you take yourself with you.

Showing up is not all of life - but it counts for a lot.

Without a yardstick sometimes the high points can be taken for granted.

The affairs of the royal house form a subject of conversation for those who, as a rule, would have no conversation.

The Columbia years are the most sentimental for me. My parents were together through most of that time and we were a happy, sort of normal family.

Image of rugged cliffs And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone, Love itself shall slumber on.

When I was a kid, everyone called me crazy for playing goal, but they were the ones chasing after the puck while I just let it come to me.

We do want our fellow citizens to respect our deeply held conviction that the absence of an afterlife lends a greater, not a lesser, moral importance to our actions on earth.

I think it's important to represent black women and our natural hair. Not wearing a weave is totally beautiful and acceptable.