Boldness Quote by Paul Gauguin

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

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

— Paul Gauguin

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

— Paul Gauguin

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

— Paul Gauguin

Out in the sun, some painters are lined up. The first is copying nature, the second is copying the first, the third is copying…

— Paul Gauguin

However depressed I may be I am not in the habit of giving up a project without having tried everything, even the 'impossible', to…

— Paul Gauguin

Lacking many of the essential implements, it irritated me to be reduced to impotence in the face of artistic projects to which I had…

— Paul Gauguin

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…

— Paul Gauguin

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

— Paul Gauguin

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

— Paul Gauguin

Sometimes people accuse me of being incomprehensible only because they look for an explicative side to my pictures which is not there.

— Paul Gauguin

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

— Paul Gauguin