Whoever the master is whom you prefer, this must only be a directive for you. Otherwise you will never be anything but an imitator.

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.

Getting into a fight with a popular senior. Pissing off a school teacher and the local chief of police. Hanging with two major-league losers." She slapped my back. "Welcome to high school.

I won't apologize for something I truly feel.

I am needed here. Atlantis can burn in the nine hells for all I care. I have sacrificed enough to Poseidon. My days as high priest are done.

You can tell alot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.

I was wired to be intense. I don't think that's ever going to change.

You should never use the camera to make your pictures. You use yourself, your experience to make the picture with the camera. Not the other way around.

I dont work with collectives. I don't consult, i don't co-operate, I don't collaborate.

I think to get society to act as a whole, people need inspiration.

When people are fanatical about something, it's contagious.

In the same way, I write some of my more difficult pieces when I'm at very happy stages in my life.