See nature in terms of the cone, the cylinder, and the sphere.

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.

Maybe this is as near as we can come to forgiveness. Not the past wiped away, nothing undone, but some willingness in the present, some recognition and embrace and slowing down.

In the end I didn't know who I was crying for, but it was something my body wanted to do, as though trying to digest grief.

Saying 'I'm sorry' is saying 'I love you' with a wounded heart in one hand and your smothered pride in the other.

Even the great bad guys in cinema history, they're likable.

Caxtons are mechanical birds with many wings And some are treasured for their markings - They cause the eyes to melt Or the body to shriek without pain.

We don't let the past determine the future unless we allow it too.

The more sophisticated we become - as we pierce reality and see the void beyond - the more our sense of wonder is destroyed, along with our reasons for being.

I'm the last in the line of Russells and Chamberlains.

We leave a piece of ourselves and our magic in a person that we fall in love with.

Baby bye Here's a fly, Let us watch him. you and I, How he crawls Up the walls Yet he never falls.