"Do not copy nature too much. Art is…" — Paul Gauguin
"Do not copy nature too much. Art is an abstraction."
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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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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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Civilization is what makes you sick.
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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 Abstraction Quotes
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Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.
— Josef Albers
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That's what it is that you rehearse - the making of music, not the playing of notes as abstractions.
— Sarah Caldwell
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Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
— Paul Cezanne
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So the universe is constantly moving in the direction of higher evolutionary impulses, creativity, abstraction, and meaning.
— Deepak Chopra
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Love is not some complex, mystical abstraction. It is something accessible and human that we learn through our everyday experience,…
— Leo Buscaglia
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The spiritual life is not a special career, involving abstraction from the world of things. It is a part of…
— Evelyn Underhill
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The individual is the true reality of life. A cosmos in himself, he does not exist for the State, nor…
— Emma Goldman
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The truly modern artist is aware of abstraction in an emotion of beauty.
— Piet Mondrian
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The abstraction is often the most definite form for the intangible thing in myself that I can clarify in paint.
— Georgia O'Keeffe
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Of the many forms of false culture, a premature converse with abstractions is perhaps the most likely to prove fatal…
— George Boole
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It is astonishing that so simple a truth should ever have had an adversary; and it is one among a…
— Alexander Hamilton
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We lay down a fundamental principle of generalization by abstraction: The existence of analogies between central features of various theories…
— Unknown Author
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