Best Paul Gauguin Sayings
- A critic is someone who meddles with something that is none of his business. Business
- Slyly, banteringly, but also overbearingly, the critic - the one who does not swallow anything whole, who waits until posterity has consecrated it before... howling… Admiration
- However depressed I may be I am not in the habit of giving up a project without having tried everything, even the 'impossible', to gain… Depressed
- What still concerns me the most is: am I on the right track, am I making progress, am I making mistakes in art? Art
- I'd like to write the way I do my paintings, that is, as fantasy takes me, as the moon dictates. Dictates
- Do not finish your work too much. An impression is not sufficiently durable for its first freshness to survive a belated search for infinite detail;… Belated
- All the joys - animal and human - of a free life are mine. I have escaped everything that is artificial, conventional, customary. All
- Whatever may happen the sun will rise tomorrow as it rose to-day, beneficent and serene. Beneficent
- Happiness and work rose up together with the sun, radiant like it. Happiness
- Lacking many of the essential implements, it irritated me to be reduced to impotence in the face of artistic projects to which I had passionately… Artistic
- Look closely at the Japanese; they draw admirably and yet in them you will see life outdoors and in the sun without shadows... Admirably
- Oh mysterious world of all light, thou hast made a light shine within me, and I have grown in admiration of thy antique beauty, which… Admiration
- Follow the masters! But why should one follow them? The only reason they are masters is that they didn't follow anybody! Anybody
- It is better to paint from memory, for thus your work will be your own... Better
- It is well for young men to have a model, but let them draw the curtain over it while they are painting. Curtain
- I was aware that on my skill as a painter would depend the physical and moral possession of the model... Aware
- There is no such thing as exaggerated art. I even believe that there is salvation only in extreme. Art
- My God! How terrible these money questions are for an artist! Artist
- If instead of a figure you put the shadow only of a person, you have found an original starting point, that strangeness of which you… Calculated
- Oh mysterious world... I have become better for having understood and having loved thy human soul - a flower which has ceased to bloom and… Become Better
- I plunged eagerly and passionately into the wilderness, as if in the hope of thus penetrating into the very heart of this Nature, powerful and… Blend
- Wherever I go I need a period of incubation so that I may learn the essence of nature, which never wishes to be understood or… Essence
- A nude by Degas is chaste. But his women wash in tubs!... Chaste
- I made a promise to keep a watch over myself, to remain master of myself, so that I might become a sure observer. Master
- In painting one must search rather for suggestion than for description, as is done in music. Description
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