Time and reflection... modify, little by little, our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us.

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.

Fictions are merely frozen dreams, linked images with some semblance of structure. They are not to be trusted, no more than the people who create them.

The mind is the realm of miracles.

Where are your clothes? And do not pretend you do not know. I can accept that you may not know if you killed a man, but every girl always knows where her clothes are.

Ask the gods nothing excessive.

The game of History is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.

Our system is the height of absurdity, since we treat the culprit both as a child, so as to have the right to punish him, and as an adult, in order to deny him consolation.

You cannot make promises because you never know what your next project will be.

I thought I wanted to be a playwright because I was interested in stories and telling stories.

Look out the other’s window. Try to see the world as your patient sees it.

To stumble twice against the same stone, is a proverbsial disgrace.