You say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.

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.

The illusion of beauty - the rule of comparisons.

Though I love my country I do not love my countrymen.

My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it. People need somebody to watch over them. Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave.

Interviewer: If I gave you fifty dollars, right now, what would you do with it?David Byrne: I would get something to eat.

I just try to be true to myself and look the way that I'm comfortable looking. Because if I'm comfortable with me, then you're going to be comfortable with me as well.

A clear conscience is generally the result of a faulty memory, not a faulty life.

There are just moments when all the stars are aligned for breakthrough products.

I am a compromiser and maneuverer. I try to get something. That's the way our system works.

Among environmentalists sharing two or three beers, the notion is quite common that if only some calamity could wipe out the entire human race, other species might once again have a chance.

When I did sports cartoons, I used to uh, go to fights.