Paul Gauguin Quotes
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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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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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On an instrument you start from one tone. In painting you start from several.
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Let everything about you breathe the calm and peace of the soul.
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And here in my isolation I can grow stronger. Poetry seems to come of itself, without effort, and I need only let myself dream a little while painting to suggest it.
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Color! What a deep and mysterious language, the language of dreams.
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Stay firmly in your path and dare; be wild two hours a day!
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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 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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A critic is someone who meddles with something that is none of his business.
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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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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.