Paul Gauguin Quotes
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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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I have tried to establish the right to dare everything.
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A critic is someone who meddles with something that is none of his business.
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Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
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Color! What a deep and mysterious language, the language of dreams.
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On an instrument you start from one tone. In painting you start from several.
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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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Stay firmly in your path and dare; be wild two hours a day!
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With practice the craft will come almost of itself, in spite of you and all the more easitly if you think of something besides technique.
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I am a great artist and I know it. It's because of what I am that I have endured so much suffering, so as to pursue my vocation, otherwise I would consider myself a rogue - which is what many people think I am, for that matter.
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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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If you see a tree as blue, then make it blue.
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Why did I hesitate to put all this glory of the sun on my canvas?
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Today one can dare anything, and, furthermore, nobody is surprised.