A time will come when people will think I am a myth, or rather something the newspapers have made up.

The cyclone ends. The sun returns; the lofty coconut trees lift up their plumes again; man does likewise. The great anguish is over; joy has returned; the sea smiles like a child.

I shut my eyes in order to see.

Color! What a deep and mysterious language, the language of dreams.

I have come to an unalterable decision - to go and live forever in Polynesia. Then I can end my days in peace and freedom, without thoughts of tomorrow and this eternal struggle against idiots.

Color which, like music, is a matter of vibrations, reaches what is most general and therefore most indefinable in nature: its inner power.

Art is either revolution or plagiarism

We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves.

Oh yes! he loved yellow, this good Vincent, this painter from Holland - those glimmers of sunlight rekindled his soul, that abhorred the fog, that needed the warmth.

Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Take care not to step on the foot of a learned idiot. His bite is incurable.

Sometimes you just need to distance yourself from people. If they care, they'll notice. If they don't, you know where you stand.

Courage is like magic, courage vanishes crisis.

Blames create no change

He who runs with the platypus is no more a man than he who swallows chesnuts

Gimme: An agreement between two losers who can't putt.

The first task of the Magician in every ceremony is therefore to render his Circle absolutely impregnable.

If you improve or tinker with something long enough, eventually it will break or malfunction.

People cry at weddings for the same reason they cry at happy endings: because they so desperately want to believe in something they know is not credible.

Act as if the future of the universe depends on what you do, while laughing at yourself for thinking that your actions make any difference.

Ill give you a definite maybe.