Paul Gauguin Quotes
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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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Happiness and work rose up together with the sun, radiant like it.
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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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A critic is someone who meddles with something that is none of his business.
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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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Art is either revolution or plagiarism
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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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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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A young man who is unable to commit a folly is already an old man.
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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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Art a mad search for individualism.
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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.
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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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Civilization is what makes you sick.
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Stay firmly in your path and dare; be wild two hours a day!
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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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Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?
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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!
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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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Let everything about you breathe the calm and peace of the soul.
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When the physical organism breaks up, the soul survives. It then takes on another body.
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A time will come when people will think I am a myth, or rather something the newspapers have made up.
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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.