Paul Gauguin Quotes

It is well for young men to have a model, but let them draw the curtain over it while they are painting.

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• I will keep painting until I die.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • Die
  • Painting
  • Will

• Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Life
  • Picture
  • Painting

• He greatly valued his possessions, chiefly because they were his, and derived genuine pleasure from contemplating a painting, a statuette, a rare lace curtain - no matter what - after he had bought it and placed it among his household gods.

  

  Kate Chopin
  • Painting
  • Matter
  • Pleasure

• Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.

  

  Balthasar Klossowski de Rola
  • Great
  • Painting
  • Pleasure

• Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Best
  • Painting
  • Sculpture

• Sunlight is painting.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Nature
  • Painting
  • Sunlight

• I did photography, painting, and drawing, but I prefer sculpture. I like it because it's very physical.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Like
  • Painting
  • Photography

• Do activities you're passionate about - which make your heart and soul feel perky - including things like working out, cooking, painting, writing, yoga, hiking, walking, swimming, being in nature, being around art, or reading inspiring books.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Writing
  • Heart
  • Art

• The world of painting has nothing to do with the art world.

  

  Caio Fonseca
  • World
  • Art
  • Painting

• RADIO – DADA DIX whose monumental painting 'Barricade' now lost created such a sensation in Dresden

  

  Otto Dix
  • Lost
  • Painting

• We are going to have perhaps a thousand years of non-representational painting.

  

  Adolph Gottlieb
  • Painting

• A large vocabulary is like an artist having a big palette of colors. We don't have to use all the colors in a single painting, but it helps to be able to find just the right shade when we need it.

  

  Anu Garg
  • Single
  • Painting

• My painting teacher in high school used to say, 'I can't paint like I want to, but through practice I'll get better.' But I don't think that's true. I think sometimes you just can't paint.

  

  Ellie Kemper
  • School
  • True
  • High

• The substance of painting is light.

  

  Andre Derain
  • Light
  • Painting

• Well, I am not interested in the kind of expression that you have when you paint a painting with brush strokes. It's all right, but it's already done and I want to do something new.

  

  Donald Judd
  • Done
  • Painting

• Certainly one of the surprising truths of having a book published is realizing that your book is as open to interpretation as an abstract painting. People bring their own beliefs and attitudes to your work, which is thrilling and surprising at the same time.

  

  Marisha Pessl
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• My work since the late '80s specifically questioned what was presented as the 'natural' order of things in the history of post-war-N.Y. painting.

  

  Deborah Kass
  • Work
  • War
  • History

• Pope Francis tells us who he is by pointing to Caravaggio's St. Matthew: 'Here, this is me, a sinner on whom the Lord has turned his gaze.' He is telling us that he has experienced the same rush of speechless wonder and graced love Caravaggio depicts in his painting.

  

  Blase J. Cupich
  • Wonder
  • Painting

• I attended the High School of Industrial Arts and studied with many great artists as painting is something that you never stop learning about. Actually, in high school there was a time that I was thinking about just concentrating on painting and I asked my music teacher, Mr. Sondberg, for advice and he encouraged me to stick with the music as well. So all my life I have been singing and painting.

  

  Tony Bennett
  • Life
  • Time
  • Great

• I don't consider anything I'm doing as generous. In the new model of the world, I hope people will consider whatever I'm doing as just normal.

  

  Tom Shadyac
  • People
  • World
  • Normal

• I love language, and I love the failure of language.

  

  Nate Lowman
  • Love
  • Failure
  • Language

• When you look at obesity in the United States, clearly it is not a bunch of stupid people. It has nothing to do with intelligence. Sometimes people who are dealing with issues of obesity and compulsive eating know more than I will ever know about nutrition, metabolism, and exercise, because they have studied it. But clearly the real problem, and therefore the real solution, is on another level of consciousness, and that is where the spiritual work comes in.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • People
  • Work
  • Real

• It is well for young men to have a model, but let them draw the curtain over it while they are painting.

  

  Paul Gauguin
  • Painting
  • Models
  • Draws