Paul Gauguin Quotes
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Silence! I am learning to know the silence of a Tahitian night.
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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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On an instrument you start from one tone. In painting you start from several.
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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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Color! What a deep and mysterious language, the language of dreams.
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I have tried to establish the right to dare everything.
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Why did I hesitate to put all this glory of the sun on my canvas?
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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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Today one can dare anything, and, furthermore, nobody is surprised.
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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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I shut my eyes in order to see.
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I am entering into the truth, into nature.
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If you see a tree as blue, then make it blue.
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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.