There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite.

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.

Pretending I’m all grown-up seems like too much work. I’d rather just be me

Always strive to get to the top in life because its usually crowded at the bottom.

The mother-earth may not like the way we preserve her...if any.

I would be nothing if it wasn't for the town where I grew up and the people who gave me my inspiration.

The irony is that you can't use real rain to make movies.

In England, you're allowed to have an opinion - as long as it comes out of your mouth.

My heart found its home long ago in the beauty, mystery, order and disorder of the flowering earth. I wanted future generations to be able to savor what I had all my life.

The sanyasa of the Gita will not tolerate complete cessation of activity.

Increasingly, people seem to misinterpret complexity as sophistication, which is baffling -- the incomprehensible should cause suspicion rather than admiration.

Today is not bad just because yesterday seemed better.