Nature has mysterious infinities and imaginative power. It is always varying the productions it offers to us. The artist himself is one of nature's means.

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.

There is never a time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment, the time is always now.

The ambitious climb high and perilous stairs and never care how to come down the desire of rising hath swallowed up their fear of a fall.

The price that one pays for refusing to act on the truth as one sees it, is to be led to believe untruth to avoid guilt.

I am comfortable with my body and embrace who I am. I love to work it.

I found that you don't have to do drugs to have a great time. Music is a great drug on its own.

So he's like a human compass? As far as superpowers go, that's pretty lame. You're like the Caster equivalent of Aquaman.

Skating taught me to set a goal and to block out other things and just focus on this one thing.

A life lived in love will never be dull.

You better check your lipstick before you come and talk to me.

There is nothing conservative about bailing out Wall Street. Likewise, there is nothing progressive about billion dollar loans to millionaires to build solar panels.