Paul Gauguin Quotes

On an instrument you start from one tone. In painting you start from several.

Paul Gauguin

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• I'm lucky to be getting a lot of good work in Tollywood. And I won't say I'm choosy, but of course, you have to select the best, and I'm trying to grab as many good films as I can. There was a time when I had to let go of some films which I regret now.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Time
  • Good
  • Work

• The success of 'The Shadow of the Wind' made me very happy, but it did not change my perspective or the way I was.

  

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  • Happy
  • Success
  • Change

• Maybe I was unpopular a bit because I was a teacher's pet. But even the teachers complained about me. They would say to my parents, 'For every one question any pupil asks, Walter asks 10.'

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • Parents
  • Question
  • Teacher

• I'm not a coach and I know it. I'm too busy and it doesn't pay. I'm expensive. But I would always advise.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Know
  • Always
  • Busy

• When I graduated, I was director of my school's sketch comedy group, and I knew that I wanted to be writing and performing my own sketch comedy. It kind of made me want to do my own one-person sketch group.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • Want
  • Me
  • Comedy

• From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Time
  • Long
  • Together

• My granddad was a hard worker, and my dad is, too. It was instilled in me as a kid. I never got pocket money; I had to earn it. I had two paper rounds before school, not just one. Wherever I worked, whether it was at football, in the pub, I'd do whatever was asked of me - and more.

  

  Olly Murs
  • School
  • Money
  • Dad

• People get to choose who they follow, so they follow me for me. It's super humbling and awesome.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • People
  • Follow
  • Humbling

• I don't really care how I am remembered as long as I bring happiness and joy to people.

  

  Eddie Albert
  • People
  • Long
  • Joy

• As a child, I remember my own intensive interest in biology, birds, other animals and flowers and was determined at an early age to become a scientist.

  

  Harald zur Hausen
  • Remember
  • Age
  • Child

• At Linkabit, we put little effort and energy into patenting things.

  

  Irwin M. Jacobs
  • Energy
  • Effort
  • Things

• I would break a lot of cymbals. You whack the cymbals hard enough, and they will crack in half. Drums are not actually as sturdy as they look. They're actually somewhat fragile instruments.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • You
  • Enough
  • Look

• Charan is very hard-working and non-egoistic, given the family he comes from. He is very open to listening, and he surrenders himself completely to the director. It was lovely to work with an actor like that.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Work
  • Family
  • Listening

• Lawyer even sounds like liar.

  

  Walter Mosley
  • Lawyer
  • Liar

• Something in your voice tells me we approach the question of remuneration.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Question

• She had a very agreeable smile; it did not light up her face suddenly, but seemed rather to suffuse it by degrees with charm. It hesitated for a moment about her lips and then slowly travelled to those great shining eyes of hers and there softly lingered.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Up
  • Great
  • She

• The truth is that everything is risky; life itself is risky.

  

  Ben Carson
  • Life
  • Truth

• I majored in directing. However, I did spend some time at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem, so I am somewhat well-versed in African Studies.

  

  Chadwick Boseman
  • Time
  • Black
  • Culture

• A writer can do nothing for men more necessary, satisfying, than just simply to reveal to them the infinite possibility of their own souls.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Writer
  • Possibility
  • Souls

• I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs. They all find their place in the world, but they all start off in the same place. I'm always painting and drawing as well, and it's an ongoing creative assignment.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • World
  • Work
  • Words

• Kandinsky, Wassily – painter, printmaker and author – the first painter to base painting on purely pictorial means of expression and abandon objects in his pictures.

  

  Wassily Kandinsky
  • Painting
  • Author

• For years, I've been painting black men as a way to respond to the reality of the streets. I've asked black men to show up in my studio in the clothes that they want to be wearing. And often times, those clothes would be the same trappings people would see on television and find menacing.

  

  Kehinde Wiley
  • People
  • Up
  • Men

• No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.

  

  Claude Monet
  • Artist
  • Picture
  • Painting

• On an instrument you start from one tone. In painting you start from several.

  

  Paul Gauguin
  • Painting
  • Instruments
  • Tone