With practice the craft will come almost of itself, in spite of you and all the more easitly if you think of something besides technique.

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.

Always look into the future when deciding how to use your time in the present.

There is no beauty equal to the beauty of your soul.

I liked the thought that the book I was now holding had been held by dozens of others.

Imam Hussain's sacrifice is for all groups and communities, an example of the path of rightousness.

Sum up at night what thou hast done by day.

Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life.

If scientists don't play God, who will?

I don't know a politician who enjoys fundraising. The system is such that the American people have lost faith.

Water, stories, the body, all the things we do, are mediums that hid and show what's hidden.

I think when you're 25 you're still finding yourself, and you should have the freedom of that.