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Painting Quotes by Paul Gauguin
- A critic in my house sees some paintings. Greatly perturbed, he asks for my drawings. My drawings? Never! They are my letters, my secrets.
- 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…
- The flat sound of my wooden clogs on the cobblestones, deep, hollow and powerful, is the note I seek in my painting.
- I'd like to write the way I do my paintings, that is, as fantasy takes me, as the moon dictates.
- It is well for young men to have a model, but let them draw the curtain over it while they are painting.
- In painting one must search rather for suggestion than for description, as is done in music.
- On an instrument you start from one tone. In painting you start from several.
- 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…
- Painting is the most beautiful of all arts. In it, all sensations are condensed; contemplating it, everyone can create a story at the will of…
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