Paul Gauguin Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Live life to the fullest. You have to color outside the lines once in a while if you want to make your life a masterpiece. Laugh some every day. Keep growing, keep dreaming, keep following your heart. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
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I don't read reviews about myself with any special eagerness or attention unless they are masterpieces of wit and acumen, and I never reread them.
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Thus this Earth resembles a great animall or rather an inanimate vegetable, draws in aethereal breath for its dayly refreshment and vitall ferment and transpires again grosses exhalations. And, according to the condition of all other things living, ought to have its time of beginning, youth, old age and perishing.
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Woman is the masterpiece.
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The Vietnam memorial is a masterpiece. The names of the dead are listed there, chronologically. Just the names.
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Your gifts lie in the place where your values, passions and strengths meet. Discovering that place is the first step toward sculpting your masterpiece, Your Life.
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My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece.
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Make your life a masterpiece: Step beyond the demands of the moment and begin right now to design and live the life you deserve.
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Many people say, "Well, I'd love to make a decision like that, but I'm not sure how I could change my life." They're paralyzed by the fear that they don't know exactly how to turn their dreams into reality. And as a result, they never make the decisions that could make their lives into the masterpieces they deserve to be. I'm here to tell you that it's not important initially to know how you're going to create a result. What's important is to decide you will find a way, no matter what.
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A true masterpiece does not tell everything.
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And the works that endure and will endure for ever, the great masterpieces, cannot have come into being as humanity... imagines. Man is only the vessel into which is poured what "nature in general" wants to express.
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A masterpiece doesn't so much transcend its time as perpetuate it; it keeps its moment alive.
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You have to be a little scared of what you're doing. Otherwise, you just paint the same masterpiece a little worse.
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Somehow, conductor as this superhuman conduit between the masters and the masterpieces and the immortals.
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Live one day at a time and make it a masterpiece.
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The sign of a masterpiece: A painting when there's a lack of resolution.
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I would like to explode, flow, crumble into dust, and my disintegration would be my masterpiece.
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It is easy to take a photograph, but it is harder to make a masterpiece in photography than in any other art medium.
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It's harder to build than destroy. To build is to engage and change. In jazz, we call progressing harmonies changes. Changes are like obstacles on a speed course. They demand your attention and require you to be present. They are coming...they are here..... and then they are gone. It's how life comes. Each moment is a procession from the future into the past and the sweet spot is always the present. Live in that sweet spot. Be present.
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Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself.
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If you slow it down, eat in courses, your body, mind, stomach will catch up with this full feeling and you won't eat as much.
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Unless we have courage to recognize cruelty for what it is - whether its victim is human or animal - we cannot expect things to be much better in the world.
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Who can be born black and not exult!
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Nothing so resembles a daub as a masterpiece.
