Paul Gauguin

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

— Paul Gauguin

I am entering into the truth, into nature.

— Paul Gauguin

Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.

— Paul Gauguin

I shut my eyes in order to see.

— Paul Gauguin

The work of a man is the explanation of the man.

— Paul Gauguin

If you see a tree as blue, then make it blue.

— Paul Gauguin

Civilization is paralysis.

— Paul Gauguin

“Shut your eyes in order to see.”

— Paul Gauguin

Machines have come, art has fled, and I am far from thinking photography can help us.

— Paul Gauguin

“Don't over finish your work. There is value to done.”

— Paul Gauguin

A nude by Degas is chaste. But his women wash in tubs!...

— Paul Gauguin

Many excellent cooks are spoilt by going into the arts.

— Paul Gauguin

Let everything about you breathe the calm and peace of the soul.

— Paul Gauguin

Silence! I am learning to know the silence of a Tahitian night.

— Paul Gauguin

When the physical organism breaks up, the soul survives. It then takes on another body.

— Paul Gauguin

Where do we come from? What are We? Where are we going?

— Paul Gauguin

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

“Is there a recipe for making beauty? The schools give recipes, but they do not beget works that make people exclaim: "…

— Paul Gauguin

I have always wanted a mistress who was fat, and I have never found one. To make a fool of me, they…

— Paul Gauguin

Do not finish your work too much. An impression is not sufficiently durable for its first freshness to survive a belated search…

— Paul Gauguin

I plunged eagerly and passionately into the wilderness, as if in the hope of thus penetrating into the very heart of this…

— Paul Gauguin

There are noble tones, ordinary ones, tranquil harmonies, consoling ones, others which excite by their vigour.

— Paul Gauguin

Out in the sun, some painters are lined up. The first is copying nature, the second is copying the first, the third…

— Paul Gauguin

In order to produce something new, you have to return to the original source, to the childhood of mankind.

— Paul Gauguin

Do you know what will soon be the ultimate in truth? - photography, once it begins to reproduce colors, and that won't…

— Paul Gauguin

Painting is the most beautiful of all arts. In it, all sensations are condensed, at its aspect everyone may create romance at…

— Paul Gauguin

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil…

— Paul Gauguin

Slyly, banteringly, but also overbearingly, the critic - the one who does not swallow anything whole, who waits until posterity has consecrated…

— Paul Gauguin

“Moved by an unconsious sentiment born out of solitude and savagery - idle tales of a noughty child who sometimes reflects and…

— Paul Gauguin

Proficiency in art is a contract with your self and the empowerment of your self. Not all of us demand or even…

— Paul Gauguin

No one wants my painting because it is different from other people's peculiar, crazy public that demands the greatest possible degree of…

— Paul Gauguin

A hint - don't paint too much direct from nature. Art is an abstraction! study nature then brood on it and treasure…

— Paul Gauguin

The missionary is no longer a man, a conscience. He is a corpse, in the hands of a confraternity, without family, without…

— Paul Gauguin

I am leaving in order to have peace and quiet. To be rid of the influence of civilization. I only want to…

— Paul Gauguin

Thanks to our cinctures and corsets we have succeeded in making an artificial being out of woman. She is an anomaly, and…

— Paul Gauguin

Nothing so resembles a daub as a masterpiece.

— Paul Gauguin

Civilization is what makes you sick.

— Paul Gauguin

Do not copy nature too much. Art is an abstraction.

— Paul Gauguin

“Do what you like, so long as it is intelligent.”

— Paul Gauguin

A meter of green is greener than a centimeter.

— Paul Gauguin