Paul Gauguin Quotes

Oh yes! He loved yellow, did good Vincent...When the two of us were together in Arles, both of us insane, and constantly at war over beautiful colors, I adored red; where could I find a perfect vermilion?

Paul Gauguin

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• I do not remember exactly when I became interested in astronomy, but I know it was at a very young age. I did organize an astronomy club for my friends at the age of 11. We would meet once a week to learn about the constellations.

  

  Nancy Roman
  • Friends
  • Remember
  • Age

• I think same sex couples should be able to get married.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Think
  • Sex
  • Same

• You learn from things that you experience in life. I'd never want to say that I regret anything or that anything was a mistake. Honestly, that isn't how I have chosen to live my life.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Life
  • Live
  • Experience

• Teasing and a sense of humor, if you can develop that in your kids, and if you can exercise it with the kids, just makes for a pleasanter atmosphere.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Kids
  • You
  • Exercise

• One day, I'll be listening to a bunch of Ray Charles, the next day it's nothing but Red Hot Chili Peppers. The next day it might be Tupac all day.

  

  J. Cole
  • Day
  • Listening
  • Red

• You can tell when someone is driven by labels. If something is couture, they think it's important and wear it and sometimes make a terrible fashion mistake. People are shocked that I know so little about designers.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • People
  • Important
  • Fashion

• Male athletes don't get dropped when they father kids.

  

  Candace Parker
  • Kids
  • Father
  • Athletes

• Basically my whole life revolves around soccer. I don't take many vacations. Everything just gets put on the back burner because of my training. I miss out on a lot of weddings and family functions. But at the end of the day, I'm sitting here as a world champion, and it feels pretty good.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Life
  • World
  • Good

• Self-respect knows no considerations.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Respect
  • Knows
  • Self-respect

• As soon as, say, Saddam Hussein started bombing Israel with Scuds, everyone was like, 'Poor Israel.' But when Israel retaliates - and most of the time they then win - people turn against them.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • People
  • Time
  • Win

• It makes no sense to worry about things you have no control over because there's nothing you can do about them, and why worry about things you do control? The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Why
  • Control
  • Worry

• I wasn't really a dark kid, but I was in my head a lot. I got good grades all through my 16 years of Catholic school, but I was always writing these weird - and, I have to say, really bad - stories, filled with murder.

  

  Karen Abbott
  • Good
  • Writing
  • School

• The thing about art for me is that you can go on theorising your work forever, because it's open to interpretation.

  

  Takeshi Kitano
  • Work
  • Forever
  • Thing

• I don't oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war.

  

  Barack Obama
  • War
  • Dumb
  • Oppose

• Pat Robertson at a national convention, equipped with delegates, certainly remains a terrible sight. He is a charlatan of Chaucerian dimensions.

  

  Pat Robertson

• Few things are more shocking to those who practice the arts of success than the frank description of those arts.

  

  Logan Pearsall Smith
  • Success
  • Practice

• Whenever somebody tells me they want me to stop singing, I'm gone.

  

  Mavis Staples
  • Stop
  • Singing

• As an American I wanted to explore... why are we the only first world country that still has capital punishment? Is it because we're too afraid to really examine the system, or is it because we really truly believe that this is the best way to deter future crime?

  

  Jodi Picoult
  • World
  • Believe
  • Country

• Doing what you wanted to do was the only training, and the only preliminary, needed for doing more of what you wanted to do.

  

  Kingsley Amis
  • Training
  • Doing
  • Preliminary

• Everything I do has a certain quality, a certain flair, a certain flavor. I like to eat the way I like to dress, the way I listen to music: put it all together, and it's a great party.

  

  Kelis Rogers
  • Great
  • Music
  • Together

• I think the thing I'd like to do is just educate the people to some of the travesties they can end.

  

  Foster Friess
  • People
  • Think
  • End

• What happens when you take a lion out of the safari and try to take him to your place of residence and make him a house pet? It ain't going to happen. That's the type of person that I am. I'm that lion.

  

  Cam Newton
  • Person
  • Lion
  • Type

• I fictionship. I love fictional men.

  

  Margaret Stohl
  • Men

• Oh yes! He loved yellow, did good Vincent...When the two of us were together in Arles, both of us insane, and constantly at war over beautiful colors, I adored red; where could I find a perfect vermilion?

  

  Paul Gauguin
  • War
  • Together
  • Beautiful