My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.

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.

It feels like someone is gripping my heart and twisting it. It feels like I can't breathe. I shut my eyes tightly against the memory that is threatening to surface. I can't br

Could we ever switch to this or any of the many other rational systems? Unlikely: tradition is difficult to overcome.

I tried body surfing once, but how often do you find a corpse?

In the days of Moses and the prophets such a man would have been counted among the wise men of the land; in the Middle Ages he would have been burned at the stake.

However, if the religions in essence merely repeat statements from the United Nations Human Rights Declaration, such a Declaration becomes superfluous; an ethic is more than rights.

Through God, everyone sparkles.

She knew what it was to wait for someone who would never come home. She knew that grief, like a scar, faded but never really went away.

I'd like to have a family.

I try to capture reality, nothing else.

When we send Love in response to hate, we become spiritual alchemists.