“On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born.”

“Do you know that charming part of our country which has been called the garden of France - that spot where, amid verdant plains watered by wide streams, one inhales the purest air of heaven?”

“Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?”

“To create art with all the passion in one's soul is to live art with all the beauty in one's heart.”

“art is risk made visible”

“Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.”

“I never speak in silence.”

“Admitting failure is quite cleansing, but never - pleasurable.”

“What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.”

“We are all looking for perfection in our lives, but the truth is, there is no perfect. Theres just better and worse. And for what we are in this world, not being perfect is the perfect thing.”

“Because I have an ideal to live up to. And I can't fall down in my own eyes!”

“The ideal is the enemy of the real.”