What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.

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.

You may not necessarily succeed If you try but you will always fail If you don't.

You as a whole person are thus unable to reconcile conflicts about anger and learn to tolerate and express anger in healthy ways. Inner turmoil and dissociation are maintained.

An ounce of performance is worth more than a pound of preachment.

It's true that everything happens for a reason, but it is always our responsibility to choose the reasons.

God was treated like this powerful, erratic, rather punitive father who has to be pacified and praised. You know, flattered.

It would be easy to descend into despair, not only about the state of journalism, but the future of American democracy. But giving up is not an option. There is too much at stake.

Don’t let people’s compliments go to your head and don’t let their criticisms go to your heart.

The oppressed, instead of striving for liberation, tend themselves to become oppressors.

The power of the culture industry's ideology is such that conformity has replaced consciousness

Problems always appear big when incompetent men are working on them.