I am entering into the truth, into nature.

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.

At beyond continent of reality, there are oceans of ideas.

You always have a choice to know your life and live with the understanding or simply give up, to the daily pressure of life.

It’s not our mistakes that define us. It’s the lessons we learn that show our true character.

In a society where women are truly equal to men, a kid bred by a theist mother and an atheist father is born an agnostic. In a patriarchal society, the kid is automatically an atheist.

Politics are not the task of a Christian.

I did have an occasion in 1951 to have two days of observation of many flights of them, they were of different sizes, flying in fighter formation, generally from east to west over Europe.

Christ is made the sure foundation

It's nice being friends over a period of time with people whose music you like so much, or other filmmakers, seeing people change, go through trials

Eighty percent of air pollution comes from plants and trees.

I don't take much notice of reviews now - obviously you'd like to have straight worship but you're never going to get that.