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Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will.
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Civilization is what makes you sick.
Paul Gauguin
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We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves.
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A critic is someone who meddles with something that is none of his business.
Paul Gauguin -
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.
Paul Gauguin -
Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.
Paul Gauguin -
A great sentiment can be rendered immediately. Dream on it and look for the simplest form in which you can express it.
Paul Gauguin -
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.
Paul Gauguin
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There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite.
Paul Gauguin -
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.
Paul Gauguin -
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.
Paul Gauguin -
A critic in my house sees some paintings. Greatly perturbed, he asks for my drawings. My drawings? Never! They are my letters, my secrets.
Paul Gauguin -
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!
Paul Gauguin -
Many excellent cooks are spoilt by going into the arts.
Paul Gauguin
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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.
Paul Gauguin -
Why work? The gods are there to lavish upon the faithful the good gifts of nature.
Paul Gauguin -
Under the continual contact with the pebbles my feet have become hardened and used to the ground. My body, almost constantly nude, no longer suffers from the sun. Civilization is falling from me little by little. I am beginning to think simply, to feel only very little hatred for my neighbor - rather, to love him.
Paul Gauguin -
When the physical organism breaks up, the soul survives. It then takes on another body.
Paul Gauguin -
Stay firmly in your path and dare; be wild two hours a day!
Paul Gauguin -
A time will come when people will think I am a myth, or rather something the newspapers have made up.
Paul Gauguin
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Do you know what will soon be the ultimate in truth?
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Let everything about you breathe the calm and peace of the soul.
Paul Gauguin -
In order to produce something new, you have to return to the original source, to the childhood of mankind.
Paul Gauguin -
In art one is concerned with the condition of the spirit for three quarters of the time; one must therefore care for oneself if he wishes to make something great and lasting.
Paul Gauguin