Henri Matisse

Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul.

He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices; he is free and nothing holds him back.

Instinct must be thwarted just as one prunes the branches of a tree so that it will grow better.

I would've done anything to work with Satyajit Ray.

Democracy, loudly upheld as a cure for much of the ailing world, has proved no guarantor of political wisdom, even if it remains the least bad form of government.