With a painter's temperament, all that's needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.

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.

In your trembling touch of love, I lost my past, present, and future.

Thinking always deceives us when it becomes a substitute for action.

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

Looking hard for a drive in, searching for a corner cafe, where the hamburgers sizzle on an open grill night and day.

I'm really lucky I'm still around. Everybody expected me to die next... But it was always someone else instead of me.

It's a wonderful metaphor, catching a wave, for how you can look at other challenges in your life.

He who regards many things easy will find many difficulties. Therefore the sage regards things difficult, and consequently never has difficulties.

When you find errors in conventional wisdom-when everyone says A and A is not true-you gain competitive advantage. Only a few times do you have to find errors in conventional wisdom to make a living.

I think I'm the best, of course. How could I not?

To change your world, you must change your words. It's the rudder (James 3:4-5) of your life.