Art is either a plagiarist or a revolutionist.

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.

Podtyagin considers whether to take offence or not -- and decides to take offence.

Sometimes I believe that God wants to try me, both now and later on; I must become good through my own efforts, without examples and without good advice.

Mastery has been achieved when one neither makes a mistake nor hesitates in the performance.

I don't know if I don't believe in monogamy. I think I do believe in it depending on the person or situation or something.

If you haven't done your mental homework in training, you don't have anything to fall back on when you face.

When success happens to an English writer, he acquires a new typewriter. When success happens to an American writer, he acquires a new life.

Pain narrows vision. The most private of sensations, it forces us to think of ourselves and little else.

If you are not long, I will wait for you all my life.

The key is really just saying my brain isn't big enough to figure out why everything happens. It would be like an ant trying to understand the internet.

Elections are not a beauty contest. It is all about tolerance.