Gwen John Quotes

• I cannot imagine why my vision will have some value in the world..and yet I know it will..I think I will count because I am patient and recueilli (contemplative) in some degree.

  Gwen John

  Thinking, Vision, Degrees

  Mary Taubman, Gwen John (1985). “Gwen John”, Ashgate Publishing

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• In talking, shyness and timidity distort the very meaning of my words. I don't pretend to know anybody well. People are like shadows to me and I am like a shadow.

  Gwen John

  Talking, People, Shadow

  Adrian Heathfield, Gwen John, Ceridwen Lloyd-Morgan, Hugo Glendinning (2004). “Live: art and performance”

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• To be reserved, secretive, with a passionate violence that causes suffering.

  Gwen John

  Suffering, Passionate, Violence

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• Aloneness is nearer God, nearer reality.

  Gwen John

  Reality

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• I am going to do some drawings or paintings...in the mirror of my wardrobe..with myself as a figure doing something.

  Gwen John

  Mirrors, Drawing, Painting

  Letter to François-Auguste-René Rodin, c. 1905.

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• When I was a child, I used to cry all the time.

  Gwen John

  Children, Cry, Used

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