Paul Gauguin Quotes

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• Color! What a deep and mysterious language, the language of dreams.

  Paul Gauguin

  Dream, Color, Mysterious

  Paul Gauguin (1978). “The writings of a savage”, Viking Adult

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• I shut my eyes in order to see.

  Paul Gauguin

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Let everything about you breathe the calm and peace of the soul.

  Paul Gauguin

  Soul, Calm, Breathe

  Paul Gauguin (1921). “Gauguin's Intimate Journals”, p.27, Courier Corporation

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• If you see a tree as blue, then make it blue.

  Paul Gauguin

  Blue, Tree, Ifs

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• Do not copy nature. Art is an abstraction. Rather, bring your art forth by dreaming in front of her and think more of creation.

  Paul Gauguin

  Dream, Art, Thinking

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• Art is either revolution or plagiarism

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  Art, Revolution, Plagiarism

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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!

  Paul Gauguin

  Reason, Should, Masters

  Paul Gauguin (1978). “The writings of a savage”, Viking Adult

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• Stay firmly in your path and dare; be wild two hours a day!

  Paul Gauguin

  Teaching, Learning, Two

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• Life is merely a fraction of a second. An infinitely small amount of time to fulfill our desires, our dreams, our passions.

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  Dream, Passion, Desire

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• I have come to an unalterable decision - to go and live forever in Polynesia. Then I can end my days in peace and freedom, without thoughts of tomorrow and this eternal struggle against idiots.

  Paul Gauguin

  Struggle, Decision, Forever

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• Color which, like music, is a matter of vibrations, reaches what is most general and therefore most indefinable in nature: its inner power.

  Paul Gauguin

  Color, Matter, Vibrations

  Paul Gauguin (1978). “The writings of a savage”, Viking Adult

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• I am leaving in order to have peace and quiet. To be rid of the influence of civilization. I only want to do simple, very simple art and to be able to do that, I have to immerse myself in virgin nature, see no one but savages, live their life, with no other thought in my mind but to render, the way a child would, the concepts formed in my brain and to do this with the aid of nothing but the primitive means of art, the only means that are good and true.

  Paul Gauguin

  Art, Children, Mean

  Paul Gauguin (1978). “The writings of a savage”, Viking Adult

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• Where do we come from? What are We? Where are we going?

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  Paul Gauguin (1985). “The Intimate Journals of Paul Gauguin”, p.9, Routledge

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• Happiness and work rose up together with the sun, radiant like it.

  Paul Gauguin

  Happiness, Rose, Together

  Paul Gauguin (1974). “Noa Noa: Voyage to Tahiti. [Translated from the Original MS. by Jonathan Griffin. Postscript by Jean Lize].”, p.39, Library of Alexandria

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• Art = a mad search for individualism.

  Paul Gauguin

  Art, Mad, Individualism

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• It is better to paint from memory, for thus your work will be your own.

  Paul Gauguin

  Memories, Paint

  Paul Gauguin (2012). “Gauguin's Intimate Journals”, p.27, Courier Corporation

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• The single most powerful tool for winning a negotiation is the ability to get up and walk away from the table without a deal

  Paul Gauguin

  Powerful, Winning, Tools

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• In order to produce something new, you have to return to the original source, to the childhood of mankind.

  Paul Gauguin

  Order, Childhood, Return

  Paul Gauguin (1978). “The writings of a savage”, Viking Adult

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• My eyes close and uncomprehendingly see the dream in the infinite space that stretches away, elusive, before me.

  Paul Gauguin

  Dream, Eye, Space

  Paul Gauguin (1978). “The writings of a savage”, Viking Adult

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• Nature has mysterious infinities and imaginative power. It is always varying the productions it offers to us. The artist himself is one of nature's means.

  Paul Gauguin

  Mean, Artist, Infinity

  Paul Gauguin (1978). “The writings of a savage”, Viking Adult

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• Poor artist! You gave away part of your soul when you painted the picture which you are now trying to dispose of.

  Paul Gauguin

  Artist, Soul, Trying

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• We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves.

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  Stupid, Silly, Stupidity

  Paul Gauguin (1921). “Gauguin's Intimate Journals”, p.73, Courier Corporation

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• Thanks to our cinctures and corsets we have succeeded in making an artificial being out of woman. She is an anomaly, and Nature herself, obedient to the laws of heredity, aids us in complicating and enervating her. We carefully keep her in a state of nervous weakness and muscular inferiority, and in guarding her from fatigue, we take away from her possibilities of development. Thus modeled on a bizarre ideal of slenderness to which, strangely enough, we continue to adhere, our women have nothing in common with us, and this, perhaps, may not be without grave moral and social disadvantages.

  Paul Gauguin

  Law, Weakness, Anomalies

  Paul Gauguin (1987). “Gauguin: a retrospective”, Hugh Lauter Levin Associates

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• Seek art and abstraction in nature by dreaming in the presence of it.

  Paul Gauguin

  Dream, Art, Nature

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• Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

  Paul Gauguin

  Life, Littles, Eternity

  Paul Gauguin (1921). “Gauguin's Intimate Journals”, p.16, Courier Corporation

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