Paul Gauguin Quotes
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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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Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!
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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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In art, there are only two types of people: revolutionaries and plagiarists. And in the end, doesn't the revolutionary's work become official, once the State takes it over?
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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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Nothing so resembles a daub as a masterpiece.
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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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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.
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It is useless to advise solitude for everyone; one must be strong enough to endure it and to work alone.
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A nude by Degas is chaste. But his women wash in tubs!
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The critics can say stupid things and we can enjoy them, if we have the legitimate feeling of superiority - the satisfaction of a duty accomplished.
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There are two sorts of beauty; one is the result of instinct, the other of study. A combination of the two, with the resulting modifications, brings with it a very complicated richness, which the art critic ought to try to discover.
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Whatever may happen the sun will rise tomorrow as it rose to-day, beneficent and serene.
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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?
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Art a mad search for individualism.
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I was aware that on my skill as a painter would depend the physical and moral possession of the model.
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Civilization is paralysis.
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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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Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?
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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.
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Night is here. All is at rest. My eyes close in order to see without actually understanding the dream that flees before men infinite space; and I experience the languorous sensation produced by the mournful procession of my hopes.
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A young man who is unable to commit a folly is already an old man.
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When the physical organism breaks up, the soul survives. It then takes on another body.
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Happiness and work rose up together with the sun, radiant like it.