I have to keep working, not to arrive at finish, which arouses the admiration of fools... I must seek completion only for the pleasure of being truer and more knowing.

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.

A theology should be like poetry, which takes us to the end of what words and thoughts can do.

Everyone wants peace, inside and outside, and we would all have it if we knew how. Now we know how. It begins with you.

I've never been lost, but I've been a mite bewildered for a few days.

People don't realize how long hours are when you're shooting a movie.

We're travelling for about nine-and-a-half months a year.

If you like the precision and concision of poetry, a page of prose is unsatisfying in a certain way. And poetry is so direct.

Be around people who can keep your energy and inspiration high. While you can make progress alone, it's so much easier when you have support.

Two of the biggest conversational blunders you can make are saying something when you should stay silent, and staying silent when you should say something.

As a writer, you paint strokes and leave suggestions so readers can create their own pictures. That allows you to know someone by a small action and it saves countless pages of explanation.

If we pursue a spiritual path in depth, then it changes who and what we are. There is no turning back. We can only move forward.