In order to produce something new, you have to return to the original source, to the childhood of mankind.

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.

Going to college don't make you from somewhere, any more than a cat born in an over can call itself a biscuit.

Along with a sense of humor, my songs have to be sincere, and they have to be sung from a position of inner conviction.

There are three major social issues that this country is struggling with: education, poverty, and drugs. Two of them we talk about, and one of them we don't.

Never give up on a good thing, never give up, never give up!

When we die, the money we can't keep, But we probably spend it all 'cause the pain ain't cheap...

You have to learn that people are always listening.

I've always painted pictures in which human love floods my colors.

Never let the church become a place where it's just a Las Vegas display place for you to show off.

They say that breaking up is hard to do, now I know, I know that it's true.

I am a guy who likes to do what I am doing with passion, whether it's a soccer match with friends or golf.