Paul Gauguin Quotes
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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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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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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 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 have tried to establish the right to dare everything.
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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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Silence! I am learning to know the silence of a Tahitian night.
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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'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 am entering into the truth, into nature.
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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.
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I shut my eyes in order to see.
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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.