Paul Gauguin Quotes
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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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Seek art and abstraction in nature by dreaming in the presence of it.
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Why did I hesitate to put all this glory of the sun on my canvas?
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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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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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It is better to paint from memory, for thus your work will be your own.
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I shut my eyes in order to see.
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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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I have tried to establish the right to dare everything.
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I am entering into the truth, into nature.
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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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If you see a tree as blue, then make it blue.