Paul Gauguin Quotes

A critic in my house sees some paintings. Greatly perturbed, he asks for my drawings. My drawings? Never! They are my letters, my secrets.

Paul Gauguin

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• Being famous gets me good concert tickets, good tables in restaurants, good seats at sporting events and that's really about it.

  

  Fran Drescher
  • Good
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  • Restaurants

• I've had situations where producers would be like, 'Could you meet me? Take the train; don't tell your parents.'

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Parents
  • Train
  • Meet

• I didn't want to write a biographie romancee especially since I already write novels, nor did I want to challenge the rules of the biography game, arbitrary as those rules might be.

  

  Edmund White
  • Game
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• In the summer we graduated we flipped out completely, drinking beer, cruising in our cars and beating up each other. It was a crazy summer. That's when I started to be interested in girls.

  

  Ed O'Neill
  • Up
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• For me, the movies I like are all independent. And getting an independent feature made, it's like you get down to the selling organs part, and it just loses some of its luster.

  

  Callie Khouri
  • Me
  • Independent
  • Movies

• There's an awareness of fashion in this country, and it's not limited to gay people.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • People
  • Country
  • Fashion

• The one thing that would utterly destroy the new capitalism is the serious practice of deferred gratification.

  

  Daniel Bell
  • Serious
  • Practice

• So far as living instruments of labour are concerned, for instance horses, their reproduction is timed by nature itself. Their average lifetime as instruments of labour is determined by the laws of nature. As soon as this term has expired they must be replaced by new ones. A horse cannot be replaced piecemeal; it must be replaced by another horse.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Nature
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• 'When God calls a man or woman, what they will eat, what they will use and everything they need for their journey will be provided abundantly by God.'

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • God
  • Journey

• Safety should be a birthright.

  

  Clemantine Wamariya
  • Safety

• Kinsey kick started a lot in shocking people with how much homosexual activity there is.

  

  Bill Condon
  • People

• I like a girl with natural beauty.

  

  Chandler Parsons
  • Girl

• 'GQ,' you've been patiently and stylishly educating me forever. To be truly stylish, you have to be kind and courteous.

  

  Douglas Booth
  • Forever

• The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.

  

  Jane Bryant Quinn
  • Time
  • Money
  • Period

• That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.

  

  Paul Valery

• I don't think I could ever describe myself as unlucky because people would look at me, playing football for a living, and say: 'Are you winding me up?'

  

  Jermain Defoe
  • People
  • Up
  • Football

• My sketchbooks are usually just a line on one page or a circle, which to most people must be totally meaningless. But to me, they are very important to the thing I am working on.

  

  Jamie Wyeth
  • People
  • Important

• My family were finally kicked out of Egypt in 1965 for being Jewish. We managed to remain longer than most.

  

  Andre Aciman
  • Family

• I became friends with the leader of the underground vampire world. He had a fangsmith, so I had a pair made... It has become kind of my signature thing.

  

  Madison McKinley
  • World
  • Friends
  • Leader

• My mother was a sociologist and an intellectual, and my father was an industrialist with a business in copper and aluminum wire. He was very strict and he wanted me to work in the family business - for him, the worst thing was having a daughter who worked in fashion.

  

  Carmen Busquets
  • Work
  • Family
  • Business

• The daily life of a genius, his sleep, his digestion, he ecstasies, his nails, his colds, his blood, his life and death are essentially different from the rest of mankind.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Life
  • Death
  • Rest

• I had a really hard time when I was 16, 17, 18. I started with the eating disorder in high school.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Time
  • School
  • High

• I hope all of you are going to fill out your census form when it comes in the mail next month. If you don't return the form the area you live in might get less government money and you wouldn't want that to happen, would you.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Live
  • Money
  • Hope

• A critic in my house sees some paintings. Greatly perturbed, he asks for my drawings. My drawings? Never! They are my letters, my secrets.

  

  Paul Gauguin
  • Art
  • House
  • Painting