Paul Gauguin Quotes
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Stay firmly in your path and dare; be wild two hours a day!
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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.
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Do you know what will soon be the ultimate in truth?
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When the physical organism breaks up, the soul survives. It then takes on another body.
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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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Let everything about you breathe the calm and peace of the soul.
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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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Do not copy nature. Art is an abstraction. Rather, bring your art forth by dreaming in front of her and think more of creation.
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My God! How terrible these money questions are for an artist!
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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.
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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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The work of a man is the explanation of the man.
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And here in my isolation I can grow stronger. Poetry seems to come of itself, without effort, and I need only let myself dream a little while painting to suggest it.
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Oh yes! he loved yellow, this good Vincent, this painter from Holland - those glimmers of sunlight rekindled his soul, that abhorred the fog, that needed the warmth.
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Perhaps I have no talent, but all vanity aside - I do not believe that anyone makes an artistic attempt, no matter how small, without having a little - or there are many fools.
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You may dream freely when you listen to music as well as when you look at painting. When you read a book you are the slave of the author's mind.
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I am entering into the truth, into nature.
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It is better to paint from memory, for thus your work will be your own.
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Poor artist! You gave away part of your soul when you painted the picture which you are now trying to dispose of.
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Today one can dare anything, and, furthermore, nobody is surprised.
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No one wants my painting because it is different from other people's peculiar, crazy public that demands the greatest possible degree of originality on the painter's part and yet won't accept him unless his work resembles that of the others!
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How to re-light the fire the very ashes of which are scattered?
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Beautiful colors exist, though we do not realize it, and are glimpsed behind the veil that modesty has drawn over them.
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Why did I hesitate to put all this glory of the sun on my canvas?