"Nature has mysterious infinities and imaginative power. It……" — Paul Gauguin
"Nature has mysterious infinities and imaginative power. It is always varying the productions it offers to us. The artist himself is one of nature's means."
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113 Quotes by Paul Gauguin
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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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