Paul Gauguin Quotes
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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 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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Color! What a deep and mysterious language, the language of dreams.
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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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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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On an instrument you start from one tone. In painting you start from several.
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Silence! I am learning to know the silence of a Tahitian night.
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I shut my eyes in order to see.
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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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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.