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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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• 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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• 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

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• A meter of green is greener than a centimeter.

  Paul Gauguin

  Green, Meter, Greener

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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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• 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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• Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

  Paul Gauguin

  Business, Weakness, Competitors

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

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• Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.

  Paul Gauguin

  Stress, Opposites, Keys

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

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• Go on working, freely and furiously, you will make progress and sooner or later your worth will be recognised, if you have any.

  Paul Gauguin

  Progress, Goes On

  "Letters to His Wife and Friends".

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• The missionary is no longer a man, a conscience. He is a corpse, in the hands of a confraternity, without family, without love, without any of the sentiments that are dear to us. Emasculated, in a sense, by his vow of chastity, he offers us the distressing spectacle of a man deformed and impotent or engaged in a stupid and useless struggle with the sacred needs of the flesh, a struggle which, seven times out of ten, leads him to sodomy, the gallows, or prison.

  Paul Gauguin

  Stupid, Struggle, Men

  Paul Gauguin (1985). “The Intimate Journals of Paul Gauguin”, p.93, Routledge

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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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• The cyclone ends. The sun returns; the lofty coconut trees lift up their plumes again; man does likewise. The great anguish is over; joy has returned; the sea smiles like a child.

  Paul Gauguin

  Children, Men, Sea

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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 made a promise to keep a watch over myself, to remain master of myself, so that I might become a sure observer.

  Paul Gauguin

  Promise, Watches, Might

  Paul Gauguin (2012). “Noa Noa: The Tahitian Journal”, p.31, Courier Corporation

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• No one wants my painting because it is different from other people's peculiar, crazy public that demands the greatest possible degree of originality on the painter's part and yet won't accept him unless his work resembles that of the others!

  Paul Gauguin

  Crazy, People, Want

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

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• Literary poetry in a painter is something special, and is neither illustration nor the translation of writing by form.

  Paul Gauguin

  Writing, Illustration, Poetry

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• On an instrument you start from one tone. In painting you start from several.

  Paul Gauguin

  Tone, Painting, Instruments

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• Without delay I began work, without hesitation and all of a fever.

  Paul Gauguin

  Fever, Delay, Hesitation

  Paul Gauguin (2012). “Noa Noa: The Tahitian Journal”, p.13, Courier Corporation

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• Out in the sun, some painters are lined up. The first is copying nature, the second is copying the first, the third is copying the second... You see the sequence.

  Paul Gauguin

  Copying, Firsts, Sun

  Paul Gauguin (1985). “The Intimate Journals of Paul Gauguin”, p.95, Routledge

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• Do you know what will soon be the ultimate in truth? - photography, once it begins to reproduce colors, and that won't be long in coming. And yet you want an intelligent man to sweat for months so as to give the illusion he can do something as well as an ingenious little machine can!

  Paul Gauguin

  Photography, Intelligent, Men

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

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• You may dream freely when you listen to music as well as when you look at painting. When you read a book you are the slave of the author's mind.

  Paul Gauguin

  Dream, Book, Mind

  c.1888 Notes Synthe¤tiques, quoted in J Rewald Gauguin (1938).

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• 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

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• There is no such thing as exaggerated art. I even believe that there is salvation only in extreme.

  Paul Gauguin

  Art, Believe, Moderation

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• Oh yes! He loved yellow, did good Vincent...When the two of us were together in Arles, both of us insane, and constantly at war over beautiful colors, I adored red; where could I find a perfect vermilion?

  Paul Gauguin

  Beautiful, War, Color

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• All the joys - animal and human - of a free life are mine. I have escaped everything that is artificial, conventional, customary.

  Paul Gauguin

  Freedom, Animal, Joy

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

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