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
Literary poetry in a painter is something special, and is neither illustration nor the translation of writing by form. — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
On an instrument you start from one tone. In painting you start from several. — 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 is better to paint from memory, for thus your work will be your own... — 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
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 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
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
And here in my isolation I can grow stronger. Poetry seems to come of itself, without effort, and I need only let… — 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
You may dream freely when you listen to music as well as when you look at painting. When you read a book… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
But I owe something to Vincent, and that is, in the consciousness of having been useful to him, the confirmation of my… — 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
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
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
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
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
