It is better to paint from memory, for thus your work will be your own.

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.

To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.

To hell with housework, our top priority has always been between our legs.

I have been on my own all my life except during those touring days.

A lie has always a certain amount of weight with those who wish to believe it.

A lawyer is a person who writes a 10,000-word document and calls it a "brief."

You will never truly know yourself or the strength of your relationships until both have been tested by adversity.

That is the beautiful part about weights: even if you are 100 year old, you can lift something. Maybe it's only a half a pound or a pound or two pounds. It will still do something.

What I'd really like to give a try is cricket, because I grew up playing American baseball.

It has taken me thirty three years and a bang on the head to get my values right.

To go behind a man's hall-door is mean, cowardly, unfair opposition.