Today one can dare anything, and, furthermore, nobody is surprised.

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.

She took a step and didn't want to take any more, but she did.

We flatter those we scarcely know We please the fleeting guest And deal full many a thoughtless blow To those who love us best.

I don't think I have accomplished what I still have to accomplish. There is one thing that I would like to do, and that's to bring security and peace to the Jewish people.

It is as easy to give advice to yourself as to others, and as useless.

Shakespeare's fault is not the greatest into which a poet may fall. It merely indicates a deficiency of taste.

I just believe in working. I'm not one of those romantic explainers of my own individual point of view.

There is no fair wind for one who knows not whither he is bound.

Sorry is the Kool-Aid of human emotions. It's what you say when you spill a cup of coffee or throw a gutter ball when you're bowling with the girls in the league. True sorrow is as rare as true love.

Condemned and executioner with aren't coupled in a primitive rite.

I want to someday be in the same position as John Elway, Joe Montana and Steve Young.