All the joys - animal and human - of a free life are mine. I have escaped everything that is artificial, conventional, customary.

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.

3 Types of People You Will Encounter. Those who:1) Promise and Deliver, 2) Under-promise and Over-deliver, 3) Over-promise and Under-deliver.

I love you, Avery. Always. You completed my life. You made me whole, gave me hope, made me a better man. For me, you were everything right in my life." - Kane Dalton

Let each man hear his own music and live by it. The drums roll one way for one man, and another way for another. You have to listen for your own.

God had not abandoned us. He was actively working behind the scenes, when I had no means or spirit to fight.

As the world community develops in peace, it will open up great untapped reservoirs in human nature.

Art is the expression of the immortal part of man.

Everyone knows that if you buy chocolate with spare change, then the calories don't count.

I'm very uncomfortable in my own skin.

I love being black in America, and especially being black in Hollywood.