Paul Gauguin Quotes - Page 2

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• Civilization is what makes you sick.

  Paul Gauguin

  Civilization, Sick

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

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• 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.

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• A young man who is unable to commit a folly is already an old man.

  Paul Gauguin

  Men, Young, Old Man

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

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

  Paul Gauguin

  Photography, Art, Thinking

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• The great artist is a formulation of the greatest intelligence: he is the recipient of sensations which are the most delicate and consequently the most invisible expressions of the brain.

  Paul Gauguin

  Artist, Expression, Brain

  Paul Gauguin (1955). “An Exhibition of Paintings, Engravings & Sculpture [by] Gauguin”

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• 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

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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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• By the combination of lines and colors, under the pretext of some motif taken from nature, I create symphonies and harmonies that represent nothing absolutely real in the ordinary sense of the word but are intended to give rise to thoughts as music does.

  Paul Gauguin

  Real, Taken, Color

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• Beware of luxury! Beware of acquiring the taste and need for it, under the pretext of providing for the morrow.

  Paul Gauguin

  Luxury, Needs, Taste

  Paul Gauguin (2012). “Noa Noa: The Tahitian Journal”, p.17, Courier Corporation

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• 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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• Whatever may happen the sun will rise tomorrow as it rose to-day, beneficent and serene.

  Paul Gauguin

  Future, Rose, May

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• I must confess that I too am a woman and that I am always prepared to applaud a woman who is more daring than I, and is equal to a man in fighting for freedom of behavior.

  Paul Gauguin

  Fighting, Men, Behavior

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

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• I have tried to establish the right to dare everything.

  Paul Gauguin

  Dare

  Letter to George-Daniel de Monfreid, Marquesas Islands, October 1902.

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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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• The public wants to understand and learn in a single day, a single minute, what the artist has spent years learning.

  Paul Gauguin

  Time, Artist, Years

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

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• Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will.

  Paul Gauguin

  Meaning Of Life, Limits, Life Has No Meaning

  Paul Gauguin (1921). “Gauguin's Intimate Journals”, p.110, Courier Corporation

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• In painting one must search rather for suggestion than for description, as is done in music.

  Paul Gauguin

  Suggestions, Done, Painting

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• Sooner or later people will learn to recognize your worth

  Paul Gauguin

  People, Sooner Or Later

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

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• The work of a man is the explanation of the man.

  Paul Gauguin

  Work, Men, He Man

  Paul Gauguin (1985). “Noa Noa: Gauguin's Tahiti”

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• I have always wanted a mistress who was fat, and I have never found one. To make a fool of me, they are always pregnant.

  Paul Gauguin

  Funny, Mistress, Fool

  Paul Gauguin (1985). “The Intimate Journals of Paul Gauguin”, p.2, Routledge

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• Do not finish your work too much. An impression is not sufficiently durable for its first freshness to survive a belated search for infinite detail; in this way you let the lava grow cool.

  Paul Gauguin

  Firsts, Finishing, Details

  Paul Gauguin (2012). “Gauguin's Intimate Journals”, p.28, Courier Corporation

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• In Europe men and women have intercourse because they love each other. In the South Seas they love each other because they have had intercourse. Who is right?

  Paul Gauguin

  Men, Europe, Sea

  "Gauguin in the South Seas". Book by Bengt Danielsson, 1966.

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• Civilization is paralysis.

  Paul Gauguin

  Art, Philosophy, Civilization

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• One's state of mind is three-quarters of what counts, so it has to be carefully nurtured if you want to do something great and lasting.

  Paul Gauguin

  Insightful, Mind, Three

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

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• Under the continual contact with the pebbles my feet have become hardened and used to the ground. My body, almost constantly nude, no longer suffers from the sun. Civilization is falling from me little by little. I am beginning to think simply, to feel only very little hatred for my neighbor - rather, to love him.

  Paul Gauguin

  Fall, Thinking, Civilization

  Paul Gauguin (2012). “Noa Noa: The Tahitian Journal”, p.17, Courier Corporation

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