Paul Gauguin Quotes

If instead of a figure you put the shadow only of a person, you have found an original starting point, that strangeness of which you have calculated.

Paul Gauguin

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• Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Dark
  • Door
  • Shadow

• I use the 'Too Faced Chocolate Bar Eye Shadow' Palette every day. I've tried a bunch of stuff, but this is my favorite. For eyebrows, I use the 'Anastasia Beverly Hills Dipbrow' Pomade in Dark Brown, and for mascara, I don't use anything else but 'Urban Decay Perversion' Mascara.

  

  Yuna
  • Day
  • Dark
  • Eye

• When 'The Shadow of the Wind' became a success I had already been a working writer, I'd been through the ups and downs, I'd seen how it worked.

  

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  • Success
  • Wind
  • Shadow

• Do not forget that the Arab countries, starting with Algeria and Egypt, are the ones that have paid the heaviest toll because of Islamic terror.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • Forget
  • Islamic
  • Starting

• Momentum? Momentum is the next day's starting pitcher.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Day
  • Starting
  • Momentum

• When I first starting conceiving series like 'Courtney,' 'Polly,' 'How Loathsome,' etc., I was shooting for closed story-arcs but open-ended concepts. Then I started realizing I was committing myself to potentially endless series.

  

  Ted Naifeh
  • Myself
  • First
  • Starting

• I have a toy poodle, Shadow. She's a little whippersnapper! And I love little monkeys.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Love
  • She
  • Shadow

• I'd come from the bottom of the barrel. Just Owen Hart getting out of the shadow of Bret Hart's little brother. Everyone figured, this is a joke, Owen's going to get squashed.

  

  Owen Hart
  • Brother
  • Shadow
  • Everyone

• Touring is starting to feel more like home than home does.

  

  G-Eazy
  • Home
  • Starting
  • Touring

• The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honours.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Sun
  • Shadow
  • Goodness

• The myths have always condemned those who 'looked back.' Condemned them, whatever the paradise may have been which they were leaving. Hence this shadow over each departure from your decision.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • May
  • Decision
  • Leaving

• The interesting thing about my character Sylar is that my strengths as an actor seemed to go completely against the shape of a character in the shadow.

  

  Zachary Quinto
  • Character
  • Interesting
  • Shadow

• A while ago, I was starting to get bored with my routine, so I tried Spinning and fell in love with it instantly. I go to class three times a week, without fail. I always get there early so I can sit in the front of the studio, and I'm ready to go as soon as the instructor comes in.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Fail
  • Starting
  • Routine

• I never thought, 'Oh God, I'm in Prince's shadow.' He'd been performing for years, and he was my teacher.

  

  Vanity
  • God
  • Teacher
  • Shadow

• And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floorShall be lifted - nevermore!

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Soul
  • Lies
  • Shadow

• I was in too much haste, and now have no time left. I traded all the sunlight and the cities and the distant lands for a handful of power, for a shadow, for the dark.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Time
  • Power
  • Dark

• The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him.

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • Doubt
  • Intelligent
  • Shadow

• If God is as real as the shadow of the Great War on Armistice Day, need we seek further reason for making a place for God in our thoughts and lives? We shall not be concerned if the scientific explorer reports that he is perfectly satisfied that he has got to the bottom of things without having come across either.

  

  Arthur Eddington
  • Great
  • God
  • Real

• Like their personal lives, women's history is fragmented, interrupted; a shadow history of human beings whose existence has been shaped by the efforts and the demands of others.

  

  Elizabeth Janeway
  • Women
  • History
  • Shadow

• I just want to make art that connects with people and moves them on an emotional level. Any time I can put out music and place a story behind it and have people watch it and go, 'Wow, I was affected by that,' to me, feels like I've done my job.

  

  Hayley Kiyoko
  • People
  • Time
  • Music

• What I found when I became Secretary of State was a lot of doubts and a lot of concerns and fears from friends, allies, around the world.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • World
  • Friends
  • Doubts

• Fat Joe ain't out here trying to battle-rap everybody in the world. That's not what I'm about.

  

  Fat Joe
  • World
  • Trying
  • Rap

• If instead of a figure you put the shadow only of a person, you have found an original starting point, that strangeness of which you have calculated.

  

  Paul Gauguin
  • Shadow
  • Figures
  • Starting