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Only Quotes by Paul Gauguin
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Sometimes people accuse me of being incomprehensible only because they look for an explicative side to my pictures which is not there.
- Follow the masters! But why should one follow them? The only reason they are masters is that they didn't follow anybody!
- There is no such thing as exaggerated art. I even believe that there is salvation only in extreme.
- 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…
- And here in my isolation I can grow stronger. Poetry seems to come of itself, without effort, and I need only let myself dream a…
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