When a picture isn't realized, you pitch it in the fire and start another one!

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.

Between the lines thoughts were felt. In a way words could never read.

Her [Odette's] eyes were beautiful, but so large they seemed to droop beneath their own weight, strained the rest of her face and always made her appear unwell or in a bad mood.

I could deny it if I liked. I could deny anything if I liked.

Taste goodness before you recommend it.

There is a fine art to making enemies and it requires diligent cultivation. It's not as easy as it looks.

I'm, by nature, a really optimistic person. It goes back to my parents having been each divorced three times and my finding some way to survive all that. I always managed to survive by being upbeat.

No sooner had the warm liquid mixed with the crumbs touched my palate than a shudder ran through me and I stopped, intent upon the extraordinary thing that was happening to me.

To know the right means of getting something done is virtually to have done it.

Clearly as you move to being a public company, probably even more than growth, there is a huge value based on predictability.

I don't want to be an old dad.