Best Paul Gauguin Quotations
- Having the certitude of a succession of days... equally free and beautiful, peace descends on me. Beautiful
- for Christ's sake, were the mountains blue, then chuck on some blue and don't go telling me that it was a blue a bit like… Bit
- Do you know what will soon be the ultimate in truth? - photography, once it begins to reproduce colors, and that won't be long in… Begins
- 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… Been
- Literary poetry in a painter is something special, and is neither illustration nor the translation of writing by form. Form
- The cyclone ends. The sun returns; the lofty coconut trees lift up their plumes again; man does likewise. The great anguish is over; joy has… Anguish
- The critics can say stupid things and we can enjoy them, if we have the legitimate feeling of superiority - the satisfaction of a duty… Accomplished
- Today one can dare anything, and, furthermore, nobody is surprised. Dare
- Silence! I am learning to know the silence of a Tahitian night. Inspirational
- It was so simple to paint things as I saw them; to put without special calculation a red close to a blue. Blue
- It is useless to advise solitude for everyone; one must be strong enough to endure it and to work alone. Advise
- Perhaps I have no talent, but all vanity aside - I do not believe that anyone makes an artistic attempt, no matter how small, without… All
- Beware of luxury! Beware of acquiring the taste and need for it, under the pretext of providing for the morrow... Acquiring
- With practice the craft will come almost of itself, in spite of you and all the more easitly if you think of something besides technique. All
- The public wants to understand and learn in a single day, a single minute, what the artist has spent years learning. Artist
- On an instrument you start from one tone. In painting you start from several. From
- There are tonalities which are noble and others which are vulgar, harmonies which are calm or consoling, and others which are exciting because of their… Boldness
- I am entering into the truth, into nature. Entering
- The work of a man is the explanation of the man. Explanation
- Why work? The gods are there to lavish upon the faithful the good gifts of nature. Faithful
- I shut my eyes in order to see. Ability
- We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves. Experimented
- It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block. Art
- Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge. Atheism
- There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite. Appetite
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