However depressed I may be I am not in the habit of giving up a project without having tried everything, even the 'impossible', to gain my end.

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.

Faith is like radar that sees through the fog -- the reality of things at a distance that the human eye cannot see.

Saints preserve us, ' Dr. Kellen said, and squeezed Galen's shoulder. 'What have we done to our youth?

Exactly! It is absurd - improbable - it cannot be. So I myself have said. And yet, my friend, there it is! One cannot escape from the facts.

Even if you don't release it, find a scream. It's so liberating. You can do anything then. It’s like you can fly. It gives you superpowers.

He lies below, correct in cypress wood, And entertains the most exclusive worms.

Play every day. I don't know. I'm not sure what kind of advice I would give. You just have to do it every second that you can.

It is not true that a man's intellectual power is, like the strength of a timber beam, to be measured by its weakest point.

Carrying a poppy he passes through the quarrel.

I never want to play a character that's one-dimensional.

I like to be working and moving - the worst thing you can do to me is stick me in a room all day while you're lighting a shot. That just kills me.