Life is merely a fraction of a second. An infinitely small amount of time to fulfill our desires, our dreams, our passions.

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.

I have a soul of leadSo stakes me to the ground I cannot move.

Most people don't have real friends. You have people in your life waiting for opportunities to see what YOU can do for them.

My father looked as if I'd just gutted him - but it was mingled with a twisted sense of satisfaction. It felt good to hurt his feelings.

It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.

Solitude is independence.

Intellectual men who quickly wolf down whatever nourishment is necessary for their bodies with a kind of disdain, may be very rational and have a noble intelligence, but they are not men of taste.

Jesus Christ did not ask much from us, He did not demand that people climb Mount Everest or make great sacrifices. He just asked that we love one another.

When you know psychologically what [characters] are feeling, then that plays out on how you dress a lot of times.

The truly important things in life - love, beauty, and one's own uniqueness - are constantly being overlooked.

Why don't we call on the credit card companies to be accountable? They need to be held accountable for their predatory lending practices.