What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end.

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.

I dont think that we're meant to understand it all the time. I think that sometimes we just have to have faith.

Thanks to words we have been able to rise above the brutes and thanks to words we have often sunk to the level of the demons.

The universality of a custom is pledge of its worth.

I certainly have warm relationships with people, but you choose the people you have those relationships with. There are some people I don't bother with.

Inventive man has invented nothing -- nothing from scratch. If he has produced a machine that in motion overcomes the law of gravity, he learned the essentials from the observation of birds.

I had watched Dad climb into the biggest arena and succeed. I wanted to find out if I had what it took to join him.

One of the fun things about play is making up stories.

The thing is, 75 percent of design today is absolutely outdated. It all has to be redesigned with the materials and knowledge that we now have. We know so much more than what we are doing.

Acting is a tough business, but if you really want to do it, you should go full force.

Men cannot labor on always. They must have recreation.