It is better to paint from memory, for thus your work will be your own... — 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
In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
I am a great artist and I know it. It's because I am that I have endured such sufferings. — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
What still concerns me the most is: am I on the right track, am I making progress, am I making mistakes in… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
In art there are only two types of people: revolutionaries and plagiarists — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
The flat sound of my wooden clogs on the cobblestones, deep, hollow and powerful, is the note I seek in my painting. — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
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 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
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
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
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 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
The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern… — 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
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
In art, there are only two types of people: revolutionaries and plagiarists. And in the end, doesn't the revolutionary's work become official,… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
Painting is the most beautiful of all arts. In it, all sensations are condensed, at its aspect everyone may create romance at… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
Proficiency in art is a contract with your self and the empowerment of your self. Not all of us demand or even… — 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
Painting is the most beautiful of all arts. In it, all sensations are condensed; contemplating it, everyone can create a story at… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
In painting one must search rather for suggestion than for description, as is done in music. — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
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 Image
Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty? — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
I was aware that on my skill as a painter would depend the physical and moral possession of the model... — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
I am a great artist and I know it, it is because I am that I have been able to endure so… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
Poor artist! You gave away part of your soul when you painted the picture which you are now trying to dispose of. — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
A critic in my house sees some paintings. Greatly perturbed, he asks for my drawings. My drawings? Never! They are my letters,… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
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 Image
I'd like to write the way I do my paintings, that is, as fantasy takes me, as the moon dictates. — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as exaggerated art. I even believe that there is salvation only in extreme. — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
When the physical organism breaks up, the soul survives. It then takes on another body. — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
