The public wants to understand and learn in a single day, a single minute, what the artist has spent years learning.

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.

It’s because we help out when they’re in trouble that we can count on them to come running when we need it.-Shikamaru Nara

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

The media dwells mostly on negativity.

He makes those just who are unjust, forgives those who deserve to be punished, and favors those who deserve no favor.

Don't eat processed food, refined food but rather organic food from the earth - nothing with genetically - modified ingredients.

Almost nothing that makes any real difference can be proved.

I was very embarrassed when my canvases began to fetch high prices. I saw myself condemned to a future of nothing but Masterpieces.

It's important to show solidarity for a child, no matter what. It's important for a child to be raised in a situation where she sees love, solidarity, commitment and honor.

Veronica solves little puzzles because she, like all of us, cannot unravel the bigger ones.

It occurs to me that for a long time she has been doing her own version of resisting.