Catastrophe, riots, factories blowing up, armies in flight, flood - the ear can detect a whole apocalypse in the starry night of the human body.

The Louvre is a morgue; you go there to identify your friends.

I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.

Be yourself. The world worships the original.

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.

Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.

Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.

The composer opens the cage door for arithmetic, the draftsman gives geometry its freedom.

Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.

Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts.

You can't have a relationship with a device whose limits are unknown to you, because without limits, it keeps becoming something else.

In the study of the fine arts, they mutually assist each other.

At this point in my career I feel that the Tour takes priority. There may come a time at some point down the line where other races may take preference, but for 2015, it's the Tour.

Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it.

So we have progressed to the point where we can move politicians around faster than light. I'm not sure I see the advantage.

It's very different to have this kid that I'm truly responsible for.

I have taken roads that I wished I had not traveled on. And I'm traveling on some pretty exciting ones, too.

I love the interplay with other smart and creative people who have got better ideas than I do and that I can bring something to, as well.

In every particular state of the world, those nations which are strongest tend to prevail over the others; and in certain marked peculiarities the strongest tend to be the best.

The man who can master his time can master nearly anything.