Paul Gauguin Quotes
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A young man who is unable to commit a folly is already an old man.
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My eyes close and uncomprehendingly see the dream in the infinite space that stretches away, elusive, before me.
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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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Without delay I began work, without hesitation and all of a fever.
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We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves.
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When the physical organism breaks up, the soul survives. It then takes on another body.
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I have always wanted a mistress who was fat, and I have never found one. To make a fool of me, they are always pregnant.
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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?
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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.
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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 great sentiment can be rendered immediately. Dream on it and look for the simplest form in which you can express it.
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There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite.
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Why work? The gods are there to lavish upon the faithful the good gifts of nature.
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The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.
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How do you see those tree?... They are yellow. Well then put down yellow. And that shadow is rather blue. So render it with pure ultramarine. Those red leaves? Use vermillion.
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Civilization is what makes you sick.
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A critic in my house sees some paintings. Greatly perturbed, he asks for my drawings. My drawings? Never! They are my letters, my secrets.
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Do you know what will soon be the ultimate in truth?
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I have come to an unalterable decision - to go and live forever in Polynesia. Then I can end my days in peace and freedom, without thoughts of tomorrow and this eternal struggle against idiots.
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Seek art and abstraction in nature by dreaming in the presence of it.
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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.
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In painting one must search rather for suggestion than for description, as is done in music.
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The public wants to understand and learn in a single day, a single minute, what the artist has spent years learning.
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Art is either revolution or plagiarism