"In art one is concerned with the condition……" — Paul Gauguin
"In art one is concerned with the condition of the spirit for three quarters of the time; one must therefore care for oneself if he wishes to make something great and lasting."
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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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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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It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
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Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
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