If I did what has already been done, I would be a plagiarist and would consider myself unworthy; so I do something different and people call me a scoundrel. I'd rather be a scoundrel than a plagiarist! — 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 originality on the painter's part and yet won't accept him unless his work resembles that of the others! — 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
