Art Quote by Paul Gauguin Download Open image “I am a great artist and I know it. It's because I am that I have endured such sufferings.” — Paul Gauguin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Artist Great art Great artist Healing Suffering
I am a great artist and I know it, it is because I am that I have been able to endure so much suffering. — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
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In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
It is well for young men to have a model, but let them draw the curtain over it while they are painting. — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
It was so simple to paint things as I saw them; to put without special calculation a red close to a blue. — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
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When the physical organism breaks up, the soul survives. It then takes on another body. — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
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Sometimes people accuse me of being incomprehensible only because they look for an explicative side to my pictures which is not there. — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
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