In Paris, everybody wants to be an actor; nobody is content to be a spectator.

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.

O holy Sunday, let your darkness not come along my way. Let her nurture internal and external world, as I start my personal day.

Be in the Now Moment—don’t squander your energy on a past you can’t change or a future which has not yet happened.

He knew me. He knew me through and through and he found no shame in me.

I am who I am: an Irish Catholic kid, working class from Long Island. And I made it big.

The only way to survive is by taking care of one another.

The education, the cultural awareness, is different in Europe, especially in France, from that in the United States. So I think the public will be much more appreciative of many images.

As to myself, if I were not a Calvinist, I think I should have no more hope of success in preaching to men, than to horses or cows.

To fly up to the sky and watch the earth is beautiful; to fly down to the earth and watch the sky is even more beautiful!

The young intellectuals are all chanting, "Revolution, Revolution," but I say the revolution will have to start in our homes, by achieving equal rights for women.

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books.