What is one to think of those fools who tell one that the artist is always subordinate to nature? Art is a harmony parallel with 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.

Leading people is like cookingDon’t stir too much
It annoys the ingredients
And spoils the food

Cynicism is something that is part of the media production of a certain type of subjectivity or consciousness that is passive and disempowered, cynical, fatalistic, pessimistic.

There has never been a poet or orator who thought another better than himself.

You have to separate yourself from your parents. You do. In order to find yourself.

Life is nutty; anything can happen.

The media has the power to create an entrenched perception of reality that's incorrect.

I'm a very emotional person.

Fear," the doctor said, "is the relinquishment of logic, the willing relinquishing of reasonable patterns. We yield to it or we fight it, but we cannot meet it halfway.

Somehow or another, my mother taught me to push through my fear, always. Feel the fear and do it anyway.

To find love in Paris you must go down among those classes where the absence of education and of vanity, and the struggle for bare necessities, have allowed more energy to survive.