Paul Gauguin Quotes

Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?

Paul Gauguin

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• I'm always trying to find 'connections' between things. That art is the juxtaposition of a lot of things that seem unrelated but add up to something recognizable.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Art

• Besides black art, there is only automation and mechanization.

  

  Federico Garcia Lorca
  • Art
  • Black
  • Automation

• Cartooning at its best is a fine art. I'm a cartoonist who works in the medium of animation, which also allows me to paint my cartoons.

  

  Ralph Bakshi
  • Art
  • Me
  • Best

• The proverbial philosophy of a people helps us to understand more about them than any other kind of literature.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • People
  • Kind
  • Literature

• Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Book
  • Universe
  • Language

• We want a vernacular in art. No mere verbal or formal agreement, or dead level of uniformity but that comprehensive and harmonizing unity with individual variety which can be developed among people politically and socially free.

  

  Walter Crane
  • People
  • Art
  • Free

• Cooking is an art, but all art requires knowing something about the techniques and materials. Using modernist techniques, you get more control, and that allows you to be more artistic, not less!

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Art
  • Control
  • Cooking

• What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Art
  • Old
  • Rate

• All art is propaganda, and ever must be, despite the wailing of the purists. I stand in utter shamelessness and say that whatever art I have for writing has been used always for propaganda for gaining the right of black folk to love and enjoy. I do not care a damn for any art that is not used for propaganda.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Writing
  • Love
  • Art

• My father's violence is the central fact of my art and my life.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Life
  • Art
  • Father

• Translation is the art of failure.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Art
  • Failure
  • Translation

• The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • People
  • Art
  • Business

• All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Art
  • Autobiography
  • Oyster

• I think I went to Italy initially for the art, architecture, food and history, but I stayed there because of the people in Cortona.

  

  Frances Mayes
  • People
  • Art
  • History

• Formally, I did my studies in the sciences, but I was very conscious that I was being deprived of culture. While studying neuroscience, I was running a rock-music festival and was able to use that as a platform to explore what it takes to produce art for 20,000 inebriated 20-somethings.

  

  Natalie Jeremijenko
  • Music
  • Art
  • Culture

• It’s the art-magazine ‘Circle’ been reprinted and it’s now referred to as classic. Well it is. But w:Ben Nicholson, Sir Leslie Martin, Gabo and Leslie Martin’s wife, Sadie Speaight, and I did that. We were sitting round the fire and we said, ‘Why shouldn’t we do a book?’ And so we started and now it’s a classic and referred to as such.

  

  Barbara Hepworth
  • Art
  • Book
  • Wife

• The critic does not pass judgment on the work; rather, art itself passes judgment, either by taking up the work in the medium of criticism or by rejecting it and thereby appraising it as beneath all criticism.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Up
  • Work
  • Art

• Soul of the age! The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage! My Shakespeare, rise; I will not lodge thee by Chaucer or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie A little further, to make thee a room; Thou art a monument, without a tomb, And art alive still, while thy book doth live, And we have wits to read, and praise to give.

  

  Ben Jonson
  • Live
  • Art
  • Book

• In light of 50 years of bondage of Eastern Europe, invading the Soviet Union in 1948 to prevent it from acquiring nuclear weapons was probably a reasonable thing to do.

  

  Condoleezza Rice
  • Light

• As long as you have a director, that's your feedback. It's the director telling you, "Okay. That was great! Okay. Can we add a little? Can you tweak it like this? Can you make it more high pitched? Can you give it a little growl?"

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • Great
  • Long
  • High

• I enjoy doing action a lot more because my films have a sense of violence. That's because I have a broad structure, and if I hit someone, it looks believable. Maybe my contemporaries are meeker-looking in comparison.

  

  Arjun Kapoor
  • Action
  • Violence

• ...the question undoubtedly is, or soon will be, not whether or no we shall employ notation in chemistry, but whether we shall use a bad and incongruous, or a consistent and regular notation.

  

  William Whewell
  • Science
  • Use
  • Consistency

• I have been working out for 30 years, staying in shape in the dream that someday I would get to play a sex scene. Finally I get one, and they cut it.

  

  William H. Macy
  • Dream
  • Film
  • Cutting

• Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?

  

  Paul Gauguin
  • Art
  • Philosophy