Paul Gauguin Quotes

Oh yes! he loved yellow, this good Vincent, this painter from Holland - those glimmers of sunlight rekindled his soul, that abhorred the fog, that needed the warmth.

Paul Gauguin

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• Painter
• Sunlight
• Warmth
• Fog

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• I had no choice in the decision to make myself available. I was not always doing things I wanted to do.

  

  Namie Amuro
  • Myself
  • Decision
  • Choice

• English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • People
  • Believe
  • English

• It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn't buy any balls. We really didn't have any courts, no rackets, nothing. And no people to practice with.

  

  Marat Safin
  • People
  • Practice
  • Impossible

• I do like being busy. I'm not the kind of person who just sits around and goes to a spa when I'm not working.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Kind
  • Working
  • Busy

• There's a group of people - maybe the secular Taliban is a good name for them - who have morphed this idea, that you have to accept my values being every bit as cherished as your values. That's not tolerance... There are too many things in this world which we sit back and tolerate.

  

  Foster Friess
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• I didn't actually begin professionally acting until I was 30.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Acting
  • Actually
  • Begin

• I am pretty hard on myself. But I think that's how it has to be if you want to keep growing as an actor.

  

  Gattlin Griffith
  • Pretty
  • Growing
  • Actor

• I am not saying one is better than the other. I enjoy both. But Hollywood is far more organised than Bollywood.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Enjoy
  • Hollywood
  • Bollywood

• I have been known as a crank, faddist, madman. Evidently the reputation is well deserved. For wherever I go, I draw to myself cranks, faddists, and madmen.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Reputation
  • Madman
  • Crank

• Wherever there is degeneration and apathy, there also is sexual perversion, cold depravity, miscarriage, premature old age, grumbling youth, there is a decline in the arts, indifference to science, and injustice in all its forms.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Age
  • Science
  • Cold

• Waking among the dead, one wondered if one was still alive. And yet real despair only seized us later. Afterwards. As we emerged from the nightmare and began to search for meaning.

  

  Elie Wiesel
  • Real
  • Search

• A sarcastic person has a superiority complex that can be cured only by the honesty of humility.

  

  Lawrence G. Lovasik
  • Honesty
  • Humility
  • Sarcastic

• The UFC are doing a tremendous job of promoting the sport worldwide. The views about the sport haven't always been so positive here in the Holland, but it's nice to see change and to see the UFC come to Holland, and everyone been really enthusiastic about it.

  

  Alistair Overeem
  • Job
  • Nice
  • Positive

• Being on set is really hard because there's craft service.

  

  Marissa Jaret Winokur
  • Service

• No day is alike, nor should it be.

  

  Donna Edwards

• I tried golf for a while, but I wasn't very good at it, so I didn't play a lot of golf. I enjoy all sports, not just football. I like basketball, baseball, and I got into the World Cup. So really, sports in general are my life, and football specifically.

  

  John Madden
  • Life
  • World
  • Good

• Even I haven't downed enough L.A. Kool-Aid to believe that somehow Hollywood movies are an overt instrument of morality.

  

  John Ridley
  • Believe

• You will perhaps say that the sinews and muscles of a bird are incomparably more powerful than those of a man... But the reply to this is that such great strength gives it a reserve of power beyond what it ordinarily uses...

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Great
  • Power
  • Powerful

• That receiving a pension or disability benefits prevents people from getting better. After all, the amygdala knows nothing of pensions.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Pension
  • Prevents
  • Amygdala

• I've always been a bit of a lost soul, and I think that goes back to me being adopted and not knowing my roots.

  

  Finn Jones
  • Soul
  • Think
  • Lost

• I love him whose soul is deep even in the wounding.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Soul
  • I Love
  • Wounding

• Art is like singing. Some do it better than others, but everyone can and should be doing it for their soul.

  

  Barbara Mason
  • Soul
  • Singing
  • Art Is

• Oh yes! he loved yellow, this good Vincent, this painter from Holland - those glimmers of sunlight rekindled his soul, that abhorred the fog, that needed the warmth.

  

  Paul Gauguin
  • Soul
  • Painter
  • Sunlight