Why work? The gods are there to lavish upon the faithful the good gifts of nature. — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
Seek art and abstraction in nature by dreaming in the presence of it. — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
Out in the sun, some painters are lined up. The first is copying nature, the second is copying the first, the third… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
“I tried to make everything breathe in this painting: faith, quiet suffering, religious and primitive style, and great nature with its scream.” — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
Nature has mysterious infinities and imaginative power. It is always varying the productions it offers to us. The artist himself is one… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
Do not copy nature. Art is an abstraction. Rather, bring your art forth by dreaming in front of her and think more… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
Color which, like music, is a matter of vibrations, reaches what is most general and therefore most indefinable in nature: its inner… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
Wherever I go I need a period of incubation so that I may learn the essence of nature, which never wishes to… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
A bit of advice, don't copy nature too closely. Art is an abstraction; as you dream amid nature, extrapolate art from it,… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
I plunged eagerly and passionately into the wilderness, as if in the hope of thus penetrating into the very heart of this… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
Oh mysterious world of all light, thou hast made a light shine within me, and I have grown in admiration of thy… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
A hint - don't paint too much direct from nature. Art is an abstraction! study nature then brood on it and treasure… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
“Don't paint from nature too much. Art is an abstraction. Derive this abstraction from nature while dreaming before it, and think more… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
I am leaving in order to have peace and quiet. To be rid of the influence of civilization. I only want to… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
Thanks to our cinctures and corsets we have succeeded in making an artificial being out of woman. She is an anomaly, and… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share
It is well for young men to have a model, but let them draw the curtain over it while they are painting. — Paul Gauguin Copy Share
It was so simple to paint things as I saw them; to put without special calculation a red close to a blue. — Paul Gauguin Copy Share
Out in the sun, some painters are lined up. The first is copying nature, the second is copying the first, the third is copying… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share
However depressed I may be I am not in the habit of giving up a project without having tried everything, even the 'impossible', to… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share
Lacking many of the essential implements, it irritated me to be reduced to impotence in the face of artistic projects to which I had… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share
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… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share
When the physical organism breaks up, the soul survives. It then takes on another body. — Paul Gauguin Copy Share
Proficiency in art is a contract with your self and the empowerment of your self. Not all of us demand or even desire proficiency,… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share
Sometimes people accuse me of being incomprehensible only because they look for an explicative side to my pictures which is not there. — Paul Gauguin Copy Share
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… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share
The public wants to understand and learn in a single day, a single minute, what the artist has spent years learning. — Paul Gauguin Copy Share
