The wretched beings depicted by Millet touch us profoundly because he loved them profoundly. They have nothing in common with vulgar ugliness. Beauty will always remain the highest aim of art.

There is nothing new under the sun, not even Manet.

I have always had a passion for the beautiful. If the man in me is often a pessimist, the artist, on the contrary, is pre-eminently an optimist.

I had not yet acquired the experience which gives modesty.

The artist should not be satisfied to only play the part of a mirror.

The true is not material reality only.

A quotation can often give the best advice.

My confidence is in the idea that I may be wrong on this or that. No man in this life should ever have to bear the burden of perfection.

Life is service. Define your service.

The phrase "I dont know" is the most honest thing anyone could ever say.

In your hands winter is a book with cloud pages that snow pearls of love.

I think the sheer fact of women talking, being, paradoxical, inexplicable, flip, self-destructiv e but above all else public is the most revolutionary thing in the world.

No-thing less splendid than a golden sepulchre would have suited so noble a heart.

We all approached doing a sequel with great trepidation and skepticism.

Why did I walk so purposefully in a straight line? Where would it take me? He went round and round and we got there all the same.

If you shed tears when you miss the sun, you also miss the stars.