Wherever I go I need a period of incubation so that I may learn the essence of nature, which never wishes to be understood or yield herself.

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.

Living for your purposes warrants eternal blessings

In the end, we must remember that no one can become what they need to be by remaining where the are. Until there is motion nothing can change.

Everybody wanted me to be rich and famous on my art. And I said no to all the commercials and all the seedy offers.

Keep in mind that whenever you are in a crisis, you are in the midst of danger as well as opportunity.

To me, not every black filmmaker who is making black films is trying to make black cinema.

Clear thought makes clear speech.

The title is still on the cards until it's off the cards.

Joe Paterno was a well-educated man, and he was also a man from a different time.

How unlike a dead fish a live fish is.

I was a repertory actor, which meant that I did a play every week. I was a different character every week; for a year, I was doing 40 or 50 characters.