Paul Gauguin Quotes - Page 3

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• Many people say that I don't know how to draw because I don't draw particular forms. When will they understand that execution, drawing and color (in other words, style) must be in harmony with the poem?

  Paul Gauguin

  Drawing, Color, People

  Letter to Charles Morice, July 1901.

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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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• I plunged eagerly and passionately into the wilderness, as if in the hope of thus penetrating into the very heart of this Nature, powerful and maternal, there to blend with her living elements.

  Paul Gauguin

  Nature, Powerful, Heart

  Paul Gauguin (2012). “Noa Noa: The Tahitian Journal”, p.21, Courier Corporation

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• Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.

  Paul Gauguin

  Life, Dream, Revenge

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

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• And here in my isolation I can grow stronger. Poetry seems to come of itself, without effort, and I need only let myself dream a little while painting to suggest it.

  Paul Gauguin

  Dream, Being Alone, Creativity

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• I am entering into the truth, into nature.

  Paul Gauguin

  Truth, Entering

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

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• It is useless to advise solitude for everyone; one must be strong enough to endure it and to work alone.

  Paul Gauguin

  Strong, Solitude, Useless

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• 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

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• Many excellent cooks are spoilt by going into the arts.

  Paul Gauguin

  Art, Excellent, Cooks

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

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• There are two sorts of beauty; one is the result of instinct, the other of study. A combination of the two, with the resulting modifications, brings with it a very complicated richness, which the art critic ought to try to discover.

  Paul Gauguin

  Art, Two, Trying

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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.

  Paul Gauguin

  Thinking, Artist, People

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

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• How to re-light the fire the very ashes of which are scattered?

  Paul Gauguin

  Fire, Light, Ashes

  Paul Gauguin (2012). “Noa Noa: The Tahitian Journal”, p.7, Courier Corporation

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• If I did what has already been done, I would be a plagiarist and would consider myself unworthy; so I do something different and people call me a scoundrel. I'd rather be a scoundrel than a plagiarist!

  Paul Gauguin

  People, Different, Would Be

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

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• Wherever I go I need a period of incubation so that I may learn the essence of nature, which never wishes to be understood or yield herself.

  Paul Gauguin

  Nature, Yield, Essence

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• 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.

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• 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

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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.

  Paul Gauguin

  Beautiful, Art, Memories

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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.

  Paul Gauguin

  Thinking, Practice, Technique

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• 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.

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• 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

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• How do you see those tree?... They are yellow. Well then put down yellow. And that shadow is rather blue. So render it with pure ultramarine. Those red leaves? Use vermillion.

  Paul Gauguin

  Blue, Yellow, Tree

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• Why work? The gods are there to lavish upon the faithful the good gifts of nature.

  Paul Gauguin

  Work, Faithful

  Paul Gauguin (2012). “Noa Noa: The Tahitian Journal”, p.16, Courier Corporation

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• for Christ's sake, were the mountains blue, then chuck on some blue and don't go telling me that it was a blue a bit like this or like that, it was blue wasn't it? Good - make them blue and that's enough!

  Paul Gauguin

  Blue, Perfection, Mountain

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• Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

  Paul Gauguin

  Winning, Order, Evil

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

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• There are noble tones, ordinary ones, tranquil harmonies, consoling ones, others which excite by their vigour.

  Paul Gauguin

  Ordinary, Noble, Tone

  1885 Letter to Emile Schuffenecker

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