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Life is merely a fraction of a second. An infinitely small amount of time to fulfill our desires, our dreams, our passions.
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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.
Paul Gauguin
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Civilization is paralysis.
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There are noble tones, ordinary ones, tranquil harmonies, consoling ones, others which excite by their vigour.
Paul Gauguin -
It is well for young men to have a model, but let them draw the curtain over it while they are painting.
Paul Gauguin -
By the combination of lines and colors, under the pretext of some motif taken from nature, I create symphonies and harmonies that represent nothing absolutely real in the ordinary sense of the word but are intended to give rise to thoughts as music does.
Paul Gauguin -
Oh mysterious world... I have become better for having understood and having loved thy human soul - a flower which has ceased to bloom and whose fragrance no one henceforth will breathe.
Paul Gauguin -
Literary poetry in a painter is something special, and is neither illustration nor the translation of writing by form.
Paul Gauguin
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It was so simple to paint things as I saw them; to put without special calculation a red close to a blue.
Paul Gauguin -
My eyes close and uncomprehendingly see the dream in the infinite space that stretches away, elusive, before me.
Paul Gauguin -
Without delay I began work, without hesitation and all of a fever.
Paul Gauguin -
In painting one must search rather for suggestion than for description, as is done in music.
Paul Gauguin -
Soon I'll be old and I've done precious little in this world for lack of time. I am always afraid I'll become senile before I've finished what I've undertaken.
Paul Gauguin -
I was aware that on my skill as a painter would depend the physical and moral possession of the model.
Paul Gauguin
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Having the certitude of a succession of days... equally free and beautiful, peace descends on me.
Paul Gauguin -
In Europe men and women have intercourse because they love each other. In the South Seas they love each other because they have had intercourse. Who is right?
Paul Gauguin -
Thanks to our cinctures and corsets we have succeeded in making an artificial being out of woman. She is an anomaly, and Nature herself, obedient to the laws of heredity, aids us in complicating and enervating her. We carefully keep her in a state of nervous weakness and muscular inferiority, and in guarding her from fatigue, we take away from her possibilities of development. Thus modeled on a bizarre ideal of slenderness to which, strangely enough, we continue to adhere, our women have nothing in common with us, and this, perhaps, may not be without grave moral and social disadvantages.
Paul Gauguin -
Many people say that I don't know how to draw because I don't draw particular forms. When will they understand that execution, drawing and color (in other words, style) must be in harmony with the poem?
Paul Gauguin -
Happiness and work rose up together with the sun, radiant like it.
Paul Gauguin -
Lacking many of the essential implements, it irritated me to be reduced to impotence in the face of artistic projects to which I had passionately given myself.
Paul Gauguin
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Whatever may happen the sun will rise tomorrow as it rose to-day, beneficent and serene.
Paul Gauguin -
Art is either revolution or plagiarism
Paul Gauguin -
I plunged eagerly and passionately into the wilderness, as if in the hope of thus penetrating into the very heart of this Nature, powerful and maternal, there to blend with her living elements.
Paul Gauguin -
Art a mad search for individualism.
Paul Gauguin