Paul Gauguin Quotes
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Go on working, freely and furiously, you will make progress and sooner or later your worth will be recognised, if you have any.
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In art there are only two types of people: revolutionaries and plagiarists
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If I did what has already been done, I would be a plagiarist and would consider myself unworthy; so I do something different and people call me a scoundrel. I'd rather be a scoundrel than a plagiarist!
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Art a mad search for individualism.
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Out in the sun, some painters are lined up. The first is copying nature, the second is copying the first, the third is copying the second... You see the sequence.
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I made a promise to keep a watch over myself, to remain master of myself, so that I might become a sure observer.
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Slyly, banteringly, but also overbearingly, the critic - the one who does not swallow anything whole, who waits until posterity has consecrated it before... howling - is among those who howl their admiration the way they howl their insults: don't be afraid, don't tremble - the beast doesn't have any nails or teeth, or even brain: it is stuffed.
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I must confess that I too am a woman and that I am always prepared to applaud a woman who is more daring than I, and is equal to a man in fighting for freedom of behavior.
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Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
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Sooner or later people will learn to recognize your worth
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There are tonalities which are noble and others which are vulgar, harmonies which are calm or consoling, and others which are exciting because of their boldness.
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However depressed I may be I am not in the habit of giving up a project without having tried everything, even the 'impossible', to gain my end.
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What still concerns me the most is: am I on the right track, am I making progress, am I making mistakes in art?
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Literary poetry in a painter is something special, and is neither illustration nor the translation of writing by form.
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Having the certitude of a succession of days... equally free and beautiful, peace descends on me.
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It is well for young men to have a model, but let them draw the curtain over it while they are painting.
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It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.
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Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!
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Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.
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Sometimes people accuse me of being incomprehensible only because they look for an explicative side to my pictures which is not there.
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Wherever I go I need a period of incubation so that I may learn the essence of nature, which never wishes to be understood or yield herself.
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Do you know what will soon be the ultimate in truth? - photography, once it begins to reproduce colors, and that won't be long in coming. And yet you want an intelligent man to sweat for months so as to give the illusion he can do something as well as an ingenious little machine can!
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Oh mysterious world of all light, thou hast made a light shine within me, and I have grown in admiration of thy antique beauty, which is the immemorial youth of nature.
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The flat sound of my wooden clogs on the cobblestones, deep, hollow and powerful, is the note I seek in my painting.