We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.

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.

In the end we're all miserable. It's a human condition.

People are like a pack of dogs sometimes. All right one by one, but together... together they do awful things they don't mean to do.

At the age of 40, having ordered meat very rare in restaurants all his life, he realized he actually liked it medium and not at all rare.

I know of no restorative of heart, body, and soul more effective against hopelessness than the restoration of the Earth.

I have come to believe, more strongly than ever, that after people die they really do live on through those who love them.

I look in my closet, and if I need it, I design it.

Too often, our minds are so burdened because of the mistakes we have made that we do not take the time to forgive ourselves and others and start over again.

What makes most of us who we are most of all is not our minds and not our bodies and not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.

You can only feel love by expressing it.

We're so different. You're an intellectual. I'm an idiot." "Don't say that," I yelled. "You're not an idiot, you stupid idiot.