Paul Gauguin Quotes
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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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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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We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves.
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Whatever may happen the sun will rise tomorrow as it rose to-day, beneficent and serene.
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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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When the physical organism breaks up, the soul survives. It then takes on another body.
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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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Art is either revolution or plagiarism
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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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There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite.
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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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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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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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Why work? The gods are there to lavish upon the faithful the good gifts of nature.
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Civilization is what makes you sick.
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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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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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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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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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One's state of mind is three-quarters of what counts, so it has to be carefully nurtured if you want to do something great and lasting.
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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.
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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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A critic in my house sees some paintings. Greatly perturbed, he asks for my drawings. My drawings? Never! They are my letters, my secrets.