Paul Gauguin Quotes

Machines have come, art has fled, and I am far from thinking photography can help us.

Paul Gauguin

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• An economically peaceful and prosperous Sri Lanka is the dream of youth of the nation. My message for the youth is to collectively work for an inclusively developed Sri Lanka.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Work
  • Dream
  • Youth

• What Shakespeare was able to do in English he would certainly not have done in French.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Done
  • English
  • French

• Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we, as a people, can be engaged in.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Important
  • Education

• Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Art
  • Science
  • Running

• I don't think there is anything magical about the language of flowers in real life or in my book.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • Life
  • Real
  • Book

• Every fight and every loss taught me something.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Me
  • Fight
  • Loss

• Imagine the peace symbol. The peace symbol has three pieces in it. One piece is emotion, that's your body. Another piece has spirit in it, that's your fuel. Another piece has intellect in it and that's your steering wheel. You can never overdo the fuel that goes into the body, which is the emotions and the steering wheel to drive it.

  

  Gary Busey
  • Peace
  • Body
  • Emotions

• I have a new show now called 'The Bridge,' where I play a guy who's a real-life guy. My character's based on the life of a guy named Craig Bromell who was a cop for 12 years and then became head of the police association, so basically the president of the union for 85,000 cops.

  

  Aaron Douglas
  • Life
  • Real
  • Character

• 'Nyxnissa?'She looked back at the queen. 'There are no happy endings, Nyxnissa.''I know,' Nyx said. 'Life keeps going.'

  

  Kameron Hurley
  • Life
  • She
  • Happy

• Being polite and grateful will make people more inclined to help you. And if people are willing to help you, you may accidentally get something you want.

  

  Jason Sudeikis
  • People
  • May
  • Help

• I don't want to lead an organization where I have no sense of what the members think of me - and by arrangement. I would never do that.

  

  Kgalema Motlanthe
  • Organization

• When things begin accelerating wildly out of control, sometimes patience is the only answer. Press pause.

  

  Douglas Rushkoff
  • Control
  • Patience

• It's always difficult when you're working with Mother Nature, because you need to adapt to that.

  

  Pilou Asbaek
  • Mother
  • Nature

• Robert Mapplethorpe asked me to write our story the day before he died. I had never written a book of nonfiction, and so it took me almost two decades to write that book.

  

  Patti Smith
  • Book

• Virtual reality is a technology that could actually allow you to connect on a real human level, soul-to-soul, regardless of where you are in the world.

  

  Chris Milk
  • World
  • Real
  • Soul

• Anything that loosens you up and makes you freer is good, because that's what acting and performing is all about - being free. It gives you a better connection to the audience.

  

  Brett Somers
  • Up
  • Good
  • Free

• It is vital that we provide North Dakota's children with nutritionally sound diets. That means ensuring that they are getting plenty of fresh fruits and vegetables, and are developing good eating habits for their future.

  

  Kent Conrad
  • Good
  • Children
  • Future

• With film, it's all about the actor being able to feel the things that the character's feeling. It must do some strange things to your mind. Music I find much easier because you're being honest about where you are as a person.

  

  Marketa Irglova
  • Music
  • Mind
  • Character

• A strip of water's spread in the setting sun, Half the river's emerald, half is red. I love the third night of the ninth month, The dew is like a pearl; the moon like a bow.

  

  Bai Juyi
  • Night
  • Water
  • Sun

• Photography is still a very new medium and everything must be tried and dare.

  

  Bill Brandt
  • Photography

• But, o, photography! as no art is,Faithful and disappointing! That recordsDull days as dull, and hold-it smiles as frauds,And will not censor blemishes,Like washing-lines, and Hall's-Distemper boards

  

  Philip Larkin
  • Art
  • Photography

• I am at war with the obvious.

  

  William Eggleston
  • War
  • Photography
  • Photographer

• I don't think I had a role model. I just was very inspired by an article which I read in Forbes magazine around the information superhighway and the Arpanet and stuff like that. To me, that intuitively made sense, and when I decided to come to the U.S., I knew exactly what I wanted to go and write about.

  

  Om Malik
  • Model
  • Inspired

• Machines have come, art has fled, and I am far from thinking photography can help us.

  

  Paul Gauguin
  • Photography
  • Machines