Paul Gauguin Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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 have tried to establish the right to dare everything.
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On an instrument you start from one tone. In painting you start from several.
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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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Color! What a deep and mysterious language, the language of dreams.
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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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Seek art and abstraction in nature by dreaming in the presence of it.
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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.