“We frustrate many designs against us by pretending not to see them.”

A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.

Nothing is lost as long as courage remains

It’s the unconquerable soul of man, and not the nature of the weapon he uses, that ensures victory

We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.

Orders and decorations are necessary in order to dazzle the people.

A woman laughing is a woman conquered.

Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and I have founded empires. But on what did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded his empire upon love; and at this hour millions of men would die for him.

One is more certain to influence men, to produce more effect on them, by absurdities than by sensible ideas.

If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.

If we could read the past histories of all our enemies we would disregard all hostility for them.

I saw the crown of France laying on the ground, so I picked it up with my sword.

A revolution is an idea, taken up by bayonets.

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

A true man hates no one.

Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.

All you need to paint is a few tools, a little instruction, and a vision in your mind.

The function of art is to do more than tell it like it is-it’s to imagine what is possible.

Look at people like an unfinished work of art. Allow them to change, allow them to grow.

Who in the world am I? Ah, that’s the great puzzle.

Your body is a work of art & your life is magic.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

I used to draw a lot. If my mother would ask me to do something else, I’d have a hairy conniption. I’d just go crazy.

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better.