Paul Gauguin Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Many excellent cooks are spoilt by going into the arts.
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My God! How terrible these money questions are for an artist!
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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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In painting one must search rather for suggestion than for description, as is done in music.
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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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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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In order to produce something new, you have to return to the original source, to the childhood of mankind.
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It is better to paint from memory, for thus your work will be your own.
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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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How to re-light the fire the very ashes of which are scattered?
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I shut my eyes in order to see.
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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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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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I'd like to write the way I do my paintings, that is, as fantasy takes me, as the moon dictates.
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Let everything about you breathe the calm and peace of the soul.
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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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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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Stay firmly in your path and dare; be wild two hours a day!
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A critic is someone who meddles with something that is none of his business.