"I am a great artist and I know……" — Paul Gauguin

"I am a great artist and I know it. It's because I am that I have endured such sufferings."

— Paul Gauguin

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113 Quotes by Paul Gauguin

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Color! What a deep and mysterious language, the language of dreams.
Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will.
Do not copy nature too much. Art is an abstraction.
A critic in my house sees some paintings. Greatly perturbed, he asks for my drawings. My drawings? Never! They are…
In art one is concerned with the condition of the spirit for three quarters of the time; one must therefore…
When the physical organism breaks up, the soul survives. It then takes on another body.
Under the continual contact with the pebbles my feet have become hardened and used to the ground. My body, almost…
Thanks to our cinctures and corsets we have succeeded in making an artificial being out of woman. She is an…
Beautiful colors exist, though we do not realize it, and are glimpsed behind the veil that modesty has drawn over…
A hint - don't paint too much direct from nature. Art is an abstraction! study nature then brood on it…
Civilization is what makes you sick.
But I owe something to Vincent, and that is, in the consciousness of having been useful to him, the confirmation…

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Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
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A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an… — Norman Ralph Augustine
Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did. — Sebastian Bach
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The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery. — Francis Bacon
I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money. — Lord Acton
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