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Artist Quotes by Paul Gauguin
- I am a great artist and I know it. It's because I am that I have endured such sufferings.
- 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.
- Poor artist! You gave away part of your soul when you painted the picture which you are now trying to dispose of.
- The great artist is a formulation of the greatest intelligence: he is the recipient of sensations which are the most delicate and consequently the most…
- My God! How terrible these money questions are for an artist!
- The public wants to understand and learn in a single day, a single minute, what the artist has spent years learning.
- I shut my eyes in order to see.
- The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist…
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