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““Is there a recipe for making beauty? The schools give recipes, but they do not beget works that make people exclaim: " How beautiful that is!””

Paul Gauguin

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It is well for young men to have a model, but let them draw the curtain over it while they are painting.

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Today one can dare anything, and, furthermore, nobody is surprised.

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It was so simple to paint things as I saw them; to put without special calculation a red close to a blue.

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Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing…

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When the physical organism breaks up, the soul survives. It then takes on another body.

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Proficiency in art is a contract with your self and the empowerment of your self. Not all of us demand or even desire proficiency,…

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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.

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“Do what you like, so long as it is intelligent.”

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True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them.

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Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the…

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“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.”

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The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.

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That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.

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The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative.

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During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art.

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