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Civilization is what makes you...

Civilization is what makes you sick.

Paul Gauguin 151 quotes

But I owe something to Vincent...

But I owe something to Vincent, and that is, in the consciousness of having been useful to him, the confirmation of my own original ideas about painting. And also, at difficult moments, the remembrance that one finds others unhappier than oneself.

Paul Gauguin 151 quotes

A great sentiment can be rende...

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

Paul Gauguin 151 quotes

Nature has mysterious infiniti...

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.

Paul Gauguin 151 quotes

A young man who is unable to c...

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

Paul Gauguin 151 quotes

In art, there are only two typ...

In art, there are only two types of people: revolutionaries and plagiarists. And in the end, doesn't the revolutionary's work become official, once the State takes it over?

Paul Gauguin 151 quotes

Art requires philosophy, just ...

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

Paul Gauguin 151 quotes

I am leaving in order to have ...

I am leaving in order to have peace and quiet. To be rid of the influence of civilization. I only want to do simple, very simple art and to be able to do that, I have to immerse myself in virgin nature, see no one but savages, live their life, with no other thought in my mind but to render, the way a child would, the concepts formed in my brain and to do this with the aid of nothing but the primitive means of art, the only means that are good and true.

Paul Gauguin 151 quotes

Color which, like music, is a ...

Color which, like music, is a matter of vibrations, reaches what is most general and therefore most indefinable in nature: its inner power.

Paul Gauguin 151 quotes

How do you see those tree?... ...

How do you see those tree?... They are yellow. Well then put down yellow. And that shadow is rather blue. So render it with pure ultramarine. Those red leaves? Use vermillion.

Paul Gauguin 151 quotes

I have tried to establish the ...

I have tried to establish the right to dare everything.

Paul Gauguin 151 quotes

I have come to an unalterable ...

I have come to an unalterable decision - to go and live forever in Polynesia. Then I can end my days in peace and freedom, without thoughts of tomorrow and this eternal struggle against idiots.

Paul Gauguin 151 quotes

Oh yes! he loved yellow, this ...

Oh yes! he loved yellow, this good Vincent, this painter from Holland - those glimmers of sunlight rekindled his soul, that abhorred the fog, that needed the warmth.

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Night is here. All is at rest....

Night is here. All is at rest. My eyes close in order to see without actually understanding the dream that flees before men infinite space; and I experience the languorous sensation produced by the mournful procession of my hopes.

Paul Gauguin 151 quotes

One's state of mind is three-q...

One's state of mind is three-quarters of what counts, so it has to be carefully nurtured if you want to do something great and lasting.

Paul Gauguin 151 quotes

Oh yes! He loved yellow, did g...

Oh yes! He loved yellow, did good Vincent...When the two of us were together in Arles, both of us insane, and constantly at war over beautiful colors, I adored red; where could I find a perfect vermilion?

Paul Gauguin 151 quotes

Proficiency in art is a contra...

Proficiency in art is a contract with your self and the empowerment of your self. Not all of us demand or even desire proficiency, but for those who do it's necessary to temper the influence of groups. And while some artists think history is bunk, the historical evidence is overwhelming: 'In my isolation I grow stronger.'

Paul Gauguin 151 quotes

Where do we come from? What ar...

Where do we come from? What are We? Where are we going?

Paul Gauguin 151 quotes

A bit of advice, don't copy na...

A bit of advice, don't copy nature too closely. Art is an abstraction; as you dream amid nature, extrapolate art from it, and concentrate on what you will create as a result.

Paul Gauguin 151 quotes

I sit at my door, smoking a ci...

I sit at my door, smoking a cigarette and sipping my absinthe, and I enjoy every day without a care in the world

Paul Gauguin 151 quotes

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