When I start thinking, all is lost.

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.

Banning books is just another form of bullying. It's all about fear and an assumption of power. The key is to address the fear and deny the power.

To refrain from storytelling is perhaps one of the highest forms of respect we can pay. Those people, with no stories to circle them, can die without being misunderstood.

Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life. To idolize scriptures is like eating paper currency.

Anomalocaridids seemed to lack front limbs, being an arthropod - being a joint-legged animal - and not having legs, it's kind of embarrassing.

You shouldn't let other people get your kicks for you.

I like the big questions.

What I really like is minimum effort for maximum effect.

News, if unreported, has no impact. It might as well have not happened at all

We need to teach our children how to debate the major life issues. Debate strengthens their beliefs and enables them to defend themselves against ideologies that are going to come their way.

Ruthless, greedy, tyrannical, disreputable... they have had one principle worth all the rest, the principle of delight!