Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

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.

The only noise now was the rain, pattering softly with the magnificent indifference of nature for the tangled passions of humans.

Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they're already asleep.

A bad liver is to a Frenchman what a nervous breakdown is to an American. Everyone has had one and everyone wants to talk about it.

No one's walking around here perfect. Everyone's gonna make mistakes. That's part of how you learn.

I could never be so lucky again

Why didn't he say goodbye? I gave myself a bruise. Why didn't he say 'I love you'?

Someone asked Luther, "Do you feel that you've been forgiven?" He answered, "No, but I'm as sure As there's a God in Heaven!"

To disappear your complete self into a character is quite difficult. I've tried it 85 times, and I've succeeded two or three times.

Because I'm so hands on here at work and always looking at fabrics you have to be mobile and as comfortable as possible.

All true work is sacred.