Paul Gauguin Quotes

A bit of advice, don't copy nature too closely. Art is an abstraction; as you dream amid nature, extrapolate art from it, and concentrate on what you will create as a result.

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• You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

  

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• Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

  

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• I'm tired of malicious articles slandering me.

  

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• I watch vlogs on YouTube. I watch Jenna Marbles a lot - I think she's really funny - and a lady called Daily Grace.

  

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• I remember 'Hannah Montana' came out, and I was so depressed, I started crying because I was like, 'I want to do that.'

  

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• It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude.

  

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• I think increasingly we want to read the history that wasn't written by the victors.

  

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• Tell a man that he is putting on a stage performance in order to get what he wants, and he will irritably reject your observation. Why? Because most people go through life as cunning actors with a permanent horror of getting found out.

  

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• When I'm a brunette, it's four times harder to hail a taxi. Then I go blonde again, and suddenly there are taxis everywhere.

  

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• I feel I'm an actress who sings a bit.

  

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• The Self of everyone, the Atma of everyone, the transcendental field of reality of everyone, is the same in everyone. Whether the body calls itself an American, German, Indian or Chinese, it doesn't matter.

  

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• I'm not musical myself.

  

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• And ne'er did Grecian chisel traceA Nymph, a Naiad, or a GraceOf finer form or lovelier face.

  

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• Toil and pleasure, dissimilar in nature, are nevertheless united by a certain natural bond.

  

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• Sometimes they seem like living shapes, - The people of the sky, - Guests in white raiment coming down From heaven, which is close by; I call them by familiar names, As one by one draws nigh.

  

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• Come ordine era dato, il tutto avvenne,Che 'l consiglio del mal va raro invano.

  

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• You have a strange relationship with calamity when you're a writer: you write about it; as an artist, you objectify and fetishize it. You render life into material, and that's a creepy thing to do.

  

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• What precious drops are thoseWhich silently each other's track pursue,Bright as young diamonds in their infant dew?

  

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• A lot of the stories are internal. They leak it to me wanting to get attention, wanting to get that headline. More times than not, I will not give it to them.

  

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• A bit of advice, don't copy nature too closely. Art is an abstraction; as you dream amid nature, extrapolate art from it, and concentrate on what you will create as a result.

  

  Paul Gauguin
  • Art
  • Dream
  • Advice