"The things we see are in our soul, not in the things. If Velazquez copies a photograph as best he can, he will get a Velazquez. If a fool copies a photograph exactly, he gets foolishness. So there is …"

"Tradition brings something original, but we mustn't forget that is also drags along a lot of dust. The penalty for taking over habits is to find one self a prisoner of false academicism and ossified v…"

"The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents."

"The problem with the youth of today is that one is no longer part of it."

"At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since."