Paul Gauguin Short Quotes

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Silence! I am learning to know the silence of a Tahitian night.

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Let everything about you breathe the calm and peace of the soul.

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Why did I hesitate to put all this glory of the sun on my canvas?

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Happiness and work rose up together with the sun, radiant like it.

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Without delay I began work, without hesitation and all of a fever.

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A young man who is unable to commit a folly is already an old man.

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Today one can dare anything, and, furthermore, nobody is surprised.

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Colour! What a deep and mysterious language, the language of dreams.

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It is better to paint from memory, for thus your work will be your own...

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Take care not to step on the foot of a learned idiot. His bite is incurable.

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We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves.

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Why work? The gods are there to lavish upon the faithful the good gifts of nature.

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I do not paint by copying nature. Everything I do springs from my wild imagination.

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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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Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge — and has to content oneself with dreaming.

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Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?

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A time will come when people will think I am a myth, or rather something the newspapers have made up.

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It is well for young men to have a model, but let them draw the curtain over it while they are painting.

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It was so simple to paint things as I saw them; to put without special calculation a red close to a blue.

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In order to produce something new, you have to return to the original source, to the childhood of mankind.

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.. color being enigmatic in itself.... then to be logical we cannot use it any other way than enigmatically,..

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My eyes close and uncomprehendingly see the dream in the infinite space that stretches away, elusive, before me.

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Beware of luxury! Beware of acquiring the taste and need for it, under the pretext of providing for the morrow...

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The flat sound of my wooden clogs on the cobblestones, deep, hollow and powerful, is the note I seek in my painting.

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The public wants to understand and learn in a single day, a single minute, what the artist has spent years learning.

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A great sentiment can be rendered immediately. Dream on it and look for the simplest form in which you can express it.

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It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.

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I have always wanted a mistress who was fat, and I have never found one. To make a fool of me, they are always pregnant.

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Look closely at the Japanese; they draw admirably and yet in them you will see life outdoors and in the sun without shadows...

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All the joys - animal and human - of a free life are mine. I have escaped everything that is artificial, conventional, customary.

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