Sometimes people accuse me of being incomprehensible only because they look for an explicative side to my pictures which is not there.

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.

Out there, there is some kinda genius person... I am talking about Sherlock Holmes... First very fast talking + in the same full of knowledge.

He touched my soul long before I knew what his hands felt like.

The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity.

I mean, I did a film, a musical of 'Scrooge', in '70, and the tricks were done by flat clothes and mirrors. I hope that the day will come when we don't have to turn up at all.

I unapologetically and unabashedly am deeply biased toward my mother.

The walls have ears, better think before you throw that shoe.

To call a man evangelical who is not evangelistic is an utter contradiction.

I write as straight as I can, just as I walk as straight as I can, because that is the best way to get there.

Look at the sparrows; they do not know what they will do in the next moment. Let us literally live from moment to moment.

A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener. So our prospects brighten . . .