All Paul Gauguin Quotes
- Color! What a deep and mysterious language, the language of dreams. Color
- Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Inspirational
- Do not copy nature too much. Art is an abstraction. Abstraction
- A critic in my house sees some paintings. Greatly perturbed, he asks for my drawings. My drawings? Never! They are my letters, my secrets. Art
- In art one is concerned with the condition of the spirit for three quarters of the time; one must therefore care for oneself if he… Art
- I am a great artist and I know it. It's because I am that I have endured such sufferings. Artist
- When the physical organism breaks up, the soul survives. It then takes on another body. Another Body
- Under the continual contact with the pebbles my feet have become hardened and used to the ground. My body, almost constantly nude, no longer suffers… Almost Constantly
- Thanks to our cinctures and corsets we have succeeded in making an artificial being out of woman. She is an anomaly, and Nature herself, obedient… Adhere
- Beautiful colors exist, though we do not realize it, and are glimpsed behind the veil that modesty has drawn over them. Beautiful
- A hint - don't paint too much direct from nature. Art is an abstraction! study nature then brood on it and treasure the creation which… Abstraction
- Civilization is what makes you sick. Civilization
- But I owe something to Vincent, and that is, in the consciousness of having been useful to him, the confirmation of my own original ideas… Been
- A great sentiment can be rendered immediately. Dream on it and look for the simplest form in which you can express it. Dream
- Nature has mysterious infinities and imaginative power. It is always varying the productions it offers to us. The artist himself is one of nature's means. Always Varying
- A young man who is unable to commit a folly is already an old man. Commit
- In art, there are only two types of people: revolutionaries and plagiarists. And in the end, doesn't the revolutionary's work become official, once the State… Art
- Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty? Art
- I am leaving in order to have peace and quiet. To be rid of the influence of civilization. I only want to do simple, very… Able
- Stay firmly in your path and dare; be wild two hours a day! Dare