Paul Gauguin Quotes

Out in the sun, some painters are lined up. The first is copying nature, the second is copying the first, the third is copying the second... You see the sequence.

Paul Gauguin

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• The sun never sets on my gallery.

  

  Larry Gagosian
  • Never
  • Sun
  • Gallery

• What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun? Or does it explode?

  

  Langston Hughes
  • Up
  • Dream
  • Like

• If there's a pool I love to hangout there and layout and get some sun. If I can ever find a second to get some sun, some Vitamin D, I will do so.

  

  Haley Reinhart
  • Love
  • Sun
  • Find

• Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Art
  • Sun
  • Yellow

• A narrow compass! and yet there Dwelt all that 's good, and all that 's fair; Give me but what this riband bound, Take all the rest the sun goes round.

  

  Edmund Waller
  • Good
  • Me
  • Rest

• To speak of oneself means to lay bare one's own soul, expose it like a body to the sun. To lay bare one's own soul is not at all like taking off one's brassiere on a crowded beach!

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Soul
  • Sun
  • Beach

• I am an Indian and a painter, that's all.

  

  M. F. Husain
  • Painter
  • Indian

• If our kids want to do music, they are going to have to have a hard row to hoe just like any other band under the sun, and they're going to have to want it more than anyone else.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Music
  • Kids
  • Want

• Give me the splendid silent sun, with all his beams full-dazzling!

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Sun

• The sun, that brave man, Comes through boughs that lie in wait, That brave man.Green and gloomy eyes In dark forms of the grass Run away.The good stars, Pale helms and spiky spurs, Run away.Fears of my bed, Fears of life and fears of death, Run away.That brave man comes up From below and walks without meditation, That brave man.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Life
  • Up
  • Good

• The stars are not wanted now; put out every one, Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun, Pour away the ocean and sweep up the woods; For nothing now can ever come to any good.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Up
  • Good
  • Sun

• Queen and huntress, chaste and fair, Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy silver chair, State in wonted manner keep: Hesperus entreats thy light, Goddess, excellently bright.

  

  Ben Jonson
  • Light
  • Sleep
  • Sun

• The energies of our system will decay; the glory of the sun will be dimmed, and the earth, tideless and inert, will no longer tolerate the race which has for a moment disturbed its solitude. Man will go down into the pit and all his thoughts will perish.

  

  Arthur Balfour
  • Earth
  • Thoughts
  • Sun

• Later in the evening when the sun is sinking low All day I been waiting for the whistle to blow Sitting in a teepee built right on the tracks Rolling them bones until the foreman comes back Pick up you belongings boys and scatter about We've got an off-schedule train comin' two miles out

  

  Chuck Berry
  • Up
  • Waiting
  • Sun

• The fall is my favorite time of year. I love the colors. The sun is out, you get warmth on your skin but there's the coolness of the breeze. It's really comfortable.

  

  Rickie Lee Skaggs
  • Time
  • Fall
  • Sun

• People out there maybe know who Junior Parker is and some of those Sun Records blues guys.

  

  Brian Setzer Stray Cats
  • People
  • Sun

• Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

  

  Jean Paul
  • Friend
  • Sun
  • Sunflower

• When I recorded 'Sun,' I wanted to do something with more of a modern sound. I've never done anything like it, and it was fun for me to sing, but I'm not really a dance person per se. However, I would love to hear that song in the club. I think it's a really good dance song.

  

  Belinda Carlisle
  • Good
  • Done
  • Fun

• I've said it before, and I'll say it again: It may be cloudy in my right eye, but the sun is shining very brightly in my left eye. And just think how the sun has shined, right up to the doors of this great hall, the shrine for the greatest game in the world and the greatest players in the world ? baseball.

  

  Kirby Puckett
  • Up
  • World
  • Great

• I've reached the age where competence is a turn-on.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Age
  • Reached
  • Competence

• My mother was very ill when I was 18. She had a brain operation and then a nervous breakdown. It's very strange when you see your parents, who have always been your pillars of strength, suddenly become vulnerable. You don't know whether to be angry that they are not strong or devastated.

  

  Emilia Fox
  • She
  • Mother
  • Parents

• I'm a big fan of moisturisers. Sometimes I'll just buy a night-time nourishing cream from The Body Shop, and sometimes I'll splurge on Creme de la Mer. I also love the Alba Botanica range.

  

  Heather Graham
  • Cream
  • The Body Shop
  • Alba Botanica range

• Every year, the Giller jury is different. You write the best book you can and throw it out there.

  

  David Bergen
  • Different
  • Book

• Out in the sun, some painters are lined up. The first is copying nature, the second is copying the first, the third is copying the second... You see the sequence.

  

  Paul Gauguin
  • Sun
  • Painter
  • Copying