Paul Gauguin Quotes
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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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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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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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Stay firmly in your path and dare; be wild two hours a day!
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Color! What a deep and mysterious language, the language of dreams.
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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 am entering into the truth, into nature.
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I have tried to establish the right to dare everything.
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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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If you see a tree as blue, then make it blue.
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Why did I hesitate to put all this glory of the sun on my canvas?
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Today one can dare anything, and, furthermore, nobody is surprised.
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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.