If you see a tree as blue, then make it blue.

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.

People still have the same story, the one where they get born and they do stuff and they die, but now the story means something different to what it meant before.

Some guys look better as they get older.

You say tomato, I say bourbon and coke.

Americans are people who prefer the Continent to their own country, but refuse to learn its languages.

The best defense against terrorism is a strong offensive against terrorists. That work continues.

I often ask students: 'Is this what you would show Tom Ford?' and they say: 'No, we'd have done more work' or 'We'd have dressed better.' So I say: 'Why don't you do that here?'

Obviously Iran is a very large problem. It's hard to decide what the number one issue [is], but that is a very threatening problem.

When I learned to sign and speak at the same time, the whole world opened up to me. That's the beauty of encouraging kids who are deaf to use whatever it takes to communicate.

I love you is unsubtle. It removes explanations, facilities, degrees, scruples.

Fighting for your convictions is important. But finding peace is paramount.