The work of a man is the explanation of the man.

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.

Never ever work! Do everything for fun. Remember, life is for joy!

A girl who travels has relationships that are based not on security, but on sincerity

Though familiarity may not breed contempt it takes off the edge of admiration.

I want to live the rest of my life, however long or short, with as much sweetness as I can decently manage, loving all the people I love, and doing as much as I can of the work I still have to do.

I'm not a 9-to-5 woman who has the same kind of lifestyle for years on end. I couldn't do it.

After all, for mankind as a whole there are no exports. We did not start developing by obtaining foreign exchange from Mars or the moon. Mankind is a closed society.

Time and space are fragments of the infinite for the use of finite creatures.

Every success is usually an admission ticket to a new set of decisions.

The way you find the answers to your problems will be unique to you.

I have always been guided by striving to show the best that I could. That is what kept me going in tennis and it is the same now.