The life of a good man is a continual warfare with his passions.

Love will draw an elephant through a key-hole.

Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation.

Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a sufficient amends.

Love before marriage is absolutely necessary.

A beautiful woman must expect to be more accountable for her steps, than one less attractive.

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

I believe art is utterly important. It is one of the things that could save us.

We do not judge great art. It judges us.

Art is a unifying language for all of us from across the world, and it transcends boundaries.

Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.

Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see.