Never do what a specialist can do better. Discover your own specialty. Do not despair if your specialty appears to be more delicate, a lesser thing. Make up in finesse what you lose in force.

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.

There is no greater fulfillment than living with a positive mind and a heart full of unconditional self-love.

Lately, I couldn't remember those years, as if childhood was a movie I'd only seen the previews to.

Be kind to people whether they deserve your kindness or not. If your kindness reaches the deserving good for you if your kindness reaches the undeserving take joy in your compassion.

Self is the only prison that can ever bind the soul.

Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it.

Girl I know it's real cause I've been around it. You only want what's real you just never found it

That's a real sign of the times - can you imagine Nick Cave wearing a hoodie? He may not wear one, but he definitely sells them.

And so I think that if the person has the funds, the network, and the equipment to do this, and also the experience, which is the key factor, then they can be quite deadly.

When you are faced with choices, you can achieve your dreams without sacrificing your integrity.

It is the constant fault and inseparable evil quality of ambition, that it never looks behind it.