Paul Gauguin

Art is either a plagiarist or a revolutionist.

— Paul Gauguin

Art = a mad search for individualism.

— Paul Gauguin

I close my eyes in order to see.

— Paul Gauguin

Art is either revolution or plagiarism

— Paul Gauguin

I am a great artist and I know it. It's because I am that I have endured such sufferings.

— Paul Gauguin

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

— Paul Gauguin

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

— Paul Gauguin

Do you know what will soon be the ultimate in truth?

— Paul Gauguin

A young man who is unable to commit a folly is already an old man.

— Paul Gauguin

In art there are only two types of people: revolutionaries and plagiarists

— Paul Gauguin

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

— Paul Gauguin

Color! What a deep and mysterious language, the language of dreams.

— Paul Gauguin

In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone…

— Paul Gauguin

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

— Paul Gauguin

I have come to an unalterable decision - to go and live forever in Polynesia. Then I can end my days in…

— Paul Gauguin

And here in my isolation I can grow stronger. Poetry seems to come of itself, without effort, and I need only let…

— Paul Gauguin

The cyclone ends. The sun returns; the lofty coconut trees lift up their plumes again; man does likewise. The great anguish is…

— Paul Gauguin

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

— Paul Gauguin

One's state of mind is three-quarters of what counts, so it has to be carefully nurtured if you want to do something…

— Paul Gauguin

There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite.

— Paul Gauguin

Night is here. All is at rest. My eyes close in order to see without actually understanding the dream that flees before…

— Paul Gauguin

By the combination of lines and colors, under the pretext of some motif taken from nature, I create symphonies and harmonies that…

— Paul Gauguin

But I owe something to Vincent, and that is, in the consciousness of having been useful to him, the confirmation of my…

— Paul Gauguin

I am a great artist and I know it. It's because of what I am that I have endured so much suffering,…

— Paul Gauguin

Under the continual contact with the pebbles my feet have become hardened and used to the ground. My body, almost constantly nude,…

— Paul Gauguin

There are two sorts of beauty; one is the result of instinct, the other of study. A combination of the two, with…

— Paul Gauguin

Painting is the most beautiful of all arts. In it, all sensations are condensed; contemplating it, everyone can create a story at…

— Paul Gauguin

How to re-light the fire the very ashes of which are scattered?

— Paul Gauguin

The landscape with its violent, pure colours dazzled and blinded me. I was always uncertain...

— Paul Gauguin

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

— Paul Gauguin

In painting one must search rather for suggestion than for description, as is done in music.

— Paul Gauguin

Having the certitude of a succession of days... equally free and beautiful, peace descends on me.

— Paul Gauguin

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

— Paul Gauguin

Whatever may happen the sun will rise tomorrow as it rose to-day, beneficent and serene.

— Paul Gauguin

Why work? The gods are there to lavish upon the faithful the good gifts of nature.

— Paul Gauguin

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

— Paul Gauguin

It is better to paint from memory, for thus your work will be your own...

— Paul Gauguin

Seek art and abstraction in nature by dreaming in the presence of it.

— Paul Gauguin

My God! How terrible these money questions are for an artist!

— Paul Gauguin

Sooner or later people will learn to recognize your worth

— Paul Gauguin