Paul Gauguin QUOTES

2 " Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty? "

― Paul Gauguin

3 " Art is either revolution or plagiarism "

― Paul Gauguin

4 " Color which, like music, is a matter of vibrations, reaches what is most general and therefore most indefinable in nature: its inner power. "

― Paul Gauguin

5 " All the joys—animal and human—of a free life are mine. I have escaped everything that is artificial, conventional, customary. I am entering into the truth, into nature. "

― Paul Gauguin , Noa Noa

6 " The self-esteem one acquires and a well-earned feeling of one's strength are the only consolation in this world. Income, after all, most brutes have that. "

― Paul Gauguin , The Writings of a Savage

7 " ...solitude is not to be recommended to everyone, for you have to be strong in order to bear it and act alone. "

― Paul Gauguin , The Writings of a Savage

8 " Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge. "

― Paul Gauguin

9 " 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

10 " Brave as you may be, wise even as you may be, you tremble when the earth trembles. That is a sensation common to everybody and which no one would ever deny. "

― Paul Gauguin , Gauguin's Intimate Journals

11 " All the masters have those weak points that are called masterpieces; and besides, they do them as crowd pleasers -- to prove that they have the know-how. "

― Paul Gauguin , The Writings of a Savage

12 " We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves. "

― Paul Gauguin

13 " It is so small a thing, the life of a man, and yet there is time to do great things, fragments of a common task. "

― Paul Gauguin , The Writings of a Savage

14 " How do you see this tree? Is it green?
...Don't be afraid to paint it as green as possible. "

― Paul Gauguin

15 " 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 , Noa Noa

16 " Don't over finish your work. There is value to done. "

― Paul Gauguin

17 " Beautiful colors exist, though we do not realize it, and are glimpsed behind the veil that modesty has drawn over them. "

― Paul Gauguin , The Writings of a Savage

18 " In the art of literature there are two contending parties. Those who aim to tell stories that are more or less well thought out, and those who aim at beautiful language, beauty of form. This contest may last a very long time; each side has a fifty-fifty chance. Only the poet can rightfully demand that verse be beautiful and nothing but. "

― Paul Gauguin

19 " Absinthe is the only decent drink that suits an artist. "

― Paul Gauguin

20 " I tried to make everything breathe in this painting: faith, quiet suffering, religious and primitive style, and great nature with its scream. "

― Paul Gauguin

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