Paul Gauguin Quotes
All the joys - animal and human - of a free life are mine. I have escaped everything that is artificial, conventional, customary.
Quotes to Explore
-
Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.
-
I am definitely a dog person. I feel like Webster and I are very much alike.
-
I just didn't realize how powerful 'CHiPs' was.
-
I'm a sort of nuts-and-bolts guy. I'm into turning wrenches and swinging a hammer and wrenching on cars.
-
If I were dead, then nobody in England would have to fuss about the cost of my security and whether or not I merited such special treatment for so long.
-
Real tolerance means respecting other people even when they baffle you and you have no idea why they think what they think.
-
Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.
-
I was kind of loathe to go on social media. I find the trolling unacceptable, and I never wanted to look like I was someone who would accept that.
-
Thrift shopping is all about going into the thrift shop and having no expectation of what you might find.
-
When you're actually making the film, you're constantly battling to maintain its integrity.
-
You can't possibly predict what will last or not. But once you attempt to write for the ages, you're doomed.
-
The limelight is a tricky place, because you can't believe what's going on around you. You stop observing. You stop perceiving. You stop extending yourself, and you become isolated.
-
I see if I can make human beings look like reptiles.
-
I'm very happy for the Contreras family. They're out. Now they've got a chance to experience life the way I did as a kid. You know, his kids are going to have a real chance in life now, and the same way that I had it.
-
We invoke the sacrifices of our fallen heroes in the abstract, but we seldom take time to thank them individually.
-
The first thing I do is brush my teeth - we like to start the morning with fresh breath - and put on my pajamas and meander down to the kitchen for a glass of orange juice. No coffee. No caffeine.
-
I'm pretty into computers. I used to be a lot more into it when I was younger.
-
An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
-
A meringue is really nothing but a foam. And what is a foam after all, but a big collection of bubbles? And what's a bubble? It's basically a very flimsy little latticework of proteins draped with water. We add sugar to this structure, which strengthens it. But things can, and do, go wrong.
-
The idea of taking up art as a calling, a profession, is a mirage. Art enriches life. It makes life worth living. But to make a living at it-that idea is incompatible with making art.
-
Respect for sovereignty means to not allow unconstitutional action and coup d'états, the removal of legitimate power.
-
Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.
-
But what is clear about pain universally is this: To the extent that we are motivated to get on with life, we seem to be able to tolerate more pain; in other words, our threshold seems to increase. Conversely, to the extent that we are unmotivated to get out of our chair, our threshold seems to go down.
-
All the joys - animal and human - of a free life are mine. I have escaped everything that is artificial, conventional, customary.
