Paul Gauguin Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I believe that you can always learn from observation.
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People don't remember each tree in a park but all of us benefit from the trees. And in a way, artists are like trees in a park.
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I think we should all call ourselves feminists.
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I do big films just to experience personal satisfaction.
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I'm addicted to 'Scandal.' Joe Morton is the devil, and I love him. I am addicted to 'Boardwalk Empire.' Jeffrey Wright is the devil, and I love him.
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You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
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I was always one of those fortunate people who never wanted to be anything other than a singer and an actor. Most people know me as a singer, but I am also an actor.
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As I began to take risks, leaving my very comfortable and secure job and taking this first leap into fashion, every subsequent risk became easier to take because I began to see the kind of opportunity and excitement that risk-taking offered.
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I was involved in a bunch of school activities - I was a cheerleader, I was on the chess team, I was vice president of my class.
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To other Canadians who are on journeys to defeat cancer and to live their lives, I say this: please don't be discouraged that my own journey hasn't gone as well as I had hoped. You must not lose your own hope.
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Every television show is sentenced to death - time and date of execution unknown.
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Ninety-nine percent of Indian people loved me and they still love me.
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The kind of world I'm endlessly going on about is pretty well doomed, but nevertheless I think there are recesses of it worth celebrating.
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Theater is dangerously open to repetition. It's exciting when you hit on a new way.
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This is a time where fashion and style go against what I would rather do myself. So I have to pick and choose from people that share my enthusiasm when it comes to certain things.
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Walk and talk in manner of love or charity, for God is love.
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Begin with the possible: begin with one step. There is always a limit you cannot do more than you can do. If you try to do too much you will do nothing
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Over the years, in making art, I have constantly explored issues dealing with space, time, light, and society. I am particularly interested in how the light of a space determines how we see that space and similarly, in how light and color are actually phenomena within us, within our own eyes.
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Like every beginner, I have thought you could beat, pummel and thrash an idea into existence. Under such treatment, of course, any decent idea folds up its paws, turns on its back, fixes its eyes on eternity, and dies.
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I'm terrible about people wanting to take pictures with me. I'm a giant baby about it. They treat you like a cartoon. There's nothing you can do except make light of it. That's if I'm in the mood – sometimes I get superbummed.
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I shut my eyes in order to see.
