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Art Critics Dreams Eyes Giving Harmony Life

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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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.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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

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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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The flat sound of my wooden clogs on the cobblestones, deep, hollow and powerful, is the note I seek in my painting.

Paul Gauguin

Powerful, Sound, Cobblestone

Naomi E. Maurer, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin (1998). “The Pursuit of Spiritual Wisdom: The Thought and Art of Vincent Van Gogh and Paul Gauguin”, p.119, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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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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Born: June 7, 1848
Died: May 8, 1903
Occupation: Artist
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