Paul Gauguin Quotes
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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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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 am entering into the truth, into nature.
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Why did I hesitate to put all this glory of the sun on my canvas?
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On an instrument you start from one tone. In painting you start from several.
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Painting is the most beautiful of all arts. In it, all sensations are condensed, at its aspect everyone may create romance at the will of his imagination, and at a glance have his soul invaded by the most profound memories, no efforts of memory, everything summed up in one moment. Complete art which sums up all the others and completes them.
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Follow the masters! But why should one follow them? The only reason they are masters is that they didn't follow anybody!
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I am a great artist and I know it, it is because I am that I have been able to endure so much suffering.
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I shut my eyes in order to see.
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Seek art and abstraction in nature by dreaming in the presence of it.
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I have tried to establish the right to dare everything.
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Silence! I am learning to know the silence of a Tahitian night.
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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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If you see a tree as blue, then make it blue.