I am a great artist and I know it, it is because I am that I have been able to endure so much suffering.

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.

Dreams are debris from bad day. Dreams are poems by bad poets that never got written.

Some managers hire people they're excited to work with. I prefer to hire people I'm excited to dominate.

Every eye makes its own perception.

The new information technology, indifferent to human suffering, does not accommodate humane needs unless we harness it and make it do so.

If a man holds a door open for me or pulls back a chair so that this old bag can sit down, I'm delighted. Women who moan and carp about that sort of thing are stupid

Men should be explorers no matter how old they are.

Though the worship of riches is an old religion, there has never been a danger that it might become the sole religion. And yet that is what is surely going to happen in the world.

Repentance is a rescuing, not a dour, doctrine.

I'd never want to be Gene Simmons, an old man who puts on makeup to entertain kids, like a clown going to work.

Time of difficulty test our faith, our fortitude and our strenght. During these times, the level of our imaan becomes manifest