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