Paul Gauguin Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• I shut my eyes in order to see.

  Paul Gauguin

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

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

• Art is either revolution or plagiarism

  Paul Gauguin

  Art, Revolution, Plagiarism

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

  Paul Gauguin

  Dream, Art, Nature

• There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite.

  Paul Gauguin

  Fashion, Art, Clothes

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

• What still concerns me the most is: am I on the right track, am I making progress, am I making mistakes in art?

  Paul Gauguin

  Art, Mistake, Track

• It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.

  Paul Gauguin

  Art, Block, Ignorance

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

• 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

• Do not copy nature too much. Art is an abstraction.

  Paul Gauguin

  Art, Too Much, Copies

  Paul Gauguin, Robert John Goldwater (1972). “Paul Gauguin”, Harry N Abrams Inc

• The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.

  Paul Gauguin

  Art, Loss, Architecture

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

• Proficiency in art is a contract with your self and the empowerment of your self. Not all of us demand or even desire proficiency, but for those who do it's necessary to temper the influence of groups. And while some artists think history is bunk, the historical evidence is overwhelming: "In my isolation I grow stronger."

  Paul Gauguin

  Art, Thinking, Self

• Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

  Paul Gauguin

  Art, Revolution, Plagiarism

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

• A critic in my house sees some paintings. Greatly perturbed, he asks for my drawings. My drawings? Never! They are my letters, my secrets.

  Paul Gauguin

  Art, Drawing, House

  Paul Gauguin (1921). “Gauguin's Intimate Journals”, p.88, Courier Corporation

• 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

• Civilization is paralysis.

  Paul Gauguin

  Art, Philosophy, Civilization

• Nothing so resembles a daub as a masterpiece.

  Paul Gauguin

  Art, Masterpiece

• In art one is concerned with the condition of the spirit for three quarters of the time; one must therefore care for oneself if he wishes to make something great and lasting.

  Paul Gauguin

  Art, Wish, Three

• Art is either a plagiarist or a revolutionist.

  Paul Gauguin

  Art, Philosophy, History

• A hint - don't paint too much direct from nature. Art is an abstraction! study nature then brood on it and treasure the creation which will result, which is the only way to ascend towards God - to create like our Divine Master.

  Paul Gauguin

  Art, Hints, Treasure

  Paul Gauguin (2003). “Letters to His Wife and Friends”, Museum of Fine Arts Boston

• A bit of advice, don't copy nature too closely. Art is an abstraction; as you dream amid nature, extrapolate art from it, and concentrate on what you will create as a result.

  Paul Gauguin

  Dream, Art, Advice

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

• 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.

  Paul Gauguin

  Beautiful, Art, Memories

• In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are masters.

  Paul Gauguin

  Art, Done, Revolutionary

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

• In art, there are only two types of people: revolutionaries and plagiarists. And in the end, doesn't the revolutionary's work become official, once the State takes it over?

  Paul Gauguin

  Art, Two, People

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

• Art = a mad search for individualism.

  Paul Gauguin

  Art, Mad, Individualism

• Machines have come, art has fled, and I am far from thinking photography can help us.

  Paul Gauguin

  Photography, Art, Thinking

• Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?

  Paul Gauguin

  Art, Philosophy, Creative

  Paul Gauguin (1921). “Gauguin's Intimate Journals”, p.109, Courier Corporation

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