"Civilization is what makes you sick." — Paul Gauguin
"Civilization is what makes you sick."
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Paul Gauguin
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113 Quotes by Paul Gauguin
Paul Gauguin has 113 quotes on this site.
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Color! What a deep and mysterious language, the language of dreams.
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Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will.
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Do not copy nature too much. Art is an abstraction.
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A critic in my house sees some paintings. Greatly perturbed, he asks for my drawings. My drawings? Never! They are…
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In art one is concerned with the condition of the spirit for three quarters of the time; one must therefore…
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I am a great artist and I know it. It's because I am that I have endured such sufferings.
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When the physical organism breaks up, the soul survives. It then takes on another body.
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Under the continual contact with the pebbles my feet have become hardened and used to the ground. My body, almost…
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Thanks to our cinctures and corsets we have succeeded in making an artificial being out of woman. She is an…
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Beautiful colors exist, though we do not realize it, and are glimpsed behind the veil that modesty has drawn over…
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A hint - don't paint too much direct from nature. Art is an abstraction! study nature then brood on it…
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But I owe something to Vincent, and that is, in the consciousness of having been useful to him, the confirmation…
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More Civilization Quotes
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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our…
— Hannah Arendt
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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be…
— Hannah Arendt
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We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization.…
— Julian Assange
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Debt is part of the human condition. Civilization is based on exchanges - on gifts, trades, loans - and the…
— Margaret Atwood
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The papacy again, representing the traditional unity of European civilization, has also shown itself unable to limit effectively the push…
— Irving Babbitt
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Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere.
— Richard Bach
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Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that…
— Edward Abbey
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Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America.…
— L. Frank Baum
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Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.
— Jane Addams
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Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses.
— Georges Bernanos
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Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.
— Ambrose Bierce
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In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by…
— Ambrose Bierce
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