I sit at my door, smoking a cigarette and sipping my absinthe, and I enjoy every day without a care in the world

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.

Enjoy your life, the time you have now, because time cannot be found only lost.

I don't really like labels in politics, but I will gladly accept the label of conservatism.

Why settle for so little in life when you can have so much just by daring to be different in your thinking.

it's better to be happy...if you can..!!

I'm very much for making everything safe. The more natural the means we use to raise our vegetables and get rid of bugs, the better.

There should be a left leg and a right leg. And I'll be in between

Music or sound in a film is a character as important as another character.

But I think she would have been happy with Fabrice,' I said. 'He was the great love of her life, you know.' Oh, dulling,' said my mother, sadly. 'One always thinks that. Every, every time.

In saving Tibet, you save the possibility that we are all brothers, sisters.

Poetry isn't an activity, it's a way life is lived.