Paul Gauguin Quotes - Page 3

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• A critic is someone who meddles with something that is none of his business.

  Paul Gauguin

  Critics

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Today one can dare anything, and, furthermore, nobody is surprised.

  Paul Gauguin

  Today, Shock, Dare

  René Huyghe, Paul Gauguin (1977). “Gauguin”

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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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• 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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• Civilization is paralysis.

  Paul Gauguin

  Art, Philosophy, Civilization

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Soon I'll be old and I've done precious little in this world for lack of time. I am always afraid I'll become senile before I've finished what I've undertaken.

  Paul Gauguin

  Done, World, Littles

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

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• I'd like to write the way I do my paintings, that is, as fantasy takes me, as the moon dictates.

  Paul Gauguin

  Writing, Moon, Way

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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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• Nail up some indecency in plain sight over your door; from that time forward you will be rid of all respectable people,the most insupportable folk God has created.

  Paul Gauguin

  Doors, Sight, People

  Paul Gauguin (1985). “The Intimate Journals of Paul Gauguin”, p.3, Routledge

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• A meter of green is greener than a centimeter.

  Paul Gauguin

  Green, Meter, Greener

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