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The great artist is a formulat...

The great artist is a formulation of the greatest intelligence: he is the recipient of sensations which are the most delicate and consequently the most invisible expressions of the brain.

Paul Gauguin 151 quotes

Without delay I began work, wi...

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

Paul Gauguin 151 quotes

How to re-light the fire the v...

How to re-light the fire the very ashes of which are scattered?

Paul Gauguin 151 quotes

Sometimes people accuse me of ...

Sometimes people accuse me of being incomprehensible only because they look for an explicative side to my pictures which is not there.

Paul Gauguin 151 quotes

The landscape with its violent...

The landscape with its violent, pure colours dazzled and blinded me. I was always uncertain...

Paul Gauguin 151 quotes

Out in the sun, some painters ...

Out in the sun, some painters are lined up. The first is copying nature, the second is copying the first, the third is copying the second... You see the sequence.

Paul Gauguin 151 quotes

Why did I hesitate to put all ...

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

Paul Gauguin 151 quotes

A critic is someone who meddle...

A critic is someone who meddles with something that is none of his business.

Paul Gauguin 151 quotes

Slyly, banteringly, but also o...

Slyly, banteringly, but also overbearingly, the critic - the one who does not swallow anything whole, who waits until posterity has consecrated it before... howling - is among those who howl their admiration the way they howl their insults: don't be afraid, don't tremble - the beast doesn't have any nails or teeth, or even brain: it is stuffed...

Paul Gauguin 151 quotes

However depressed I may be I a...

However depressed I may be I am not in the habit of giving up a project without having tried everything, even the 'impossible', to gain my end.

Paul Gauguin 151 quotes

What still concerns me the mos...

What still concerns me the most is: am I on the right track, am I making progress, am I making mistakes in art?

Paul Gauguin 151 quotes

I'd like to write the way I do...

I'd like to write the way I do my paintings, that is, as fantasy takes me, as the moon dictates.

Paul Gauguin 151 quotes

Do not finish your work too mu...

Do not finish your work too much. An impression is not sufficiently durable for its first freshness to survive a belated search for infinite detail; in this way you let the lava grow cool...

Paul Gauguin 151 quotes

All the joys - animal and huma...

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

Paul Gauguin 151 quotes

Whatever may happen the sun wi...

Whatever may happen the sun will rise tomorrow as it rose to-day, beneficent and serene.

Paul Gauguin 151 quotes

Happiness and work rose up tog...

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

Paul Gauguin 151 quotes

Lacking many of the essential ...

Lacking many of the essential implements, it irritated me to be reduced to impotence in the face of artistic projects to which I had passionately given myself.

Paul Gauguin 151 quotes

Look closely at the Japanese; ...

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

Paul Gauguin 151 quotes

Oh mysterious world of all lig...

Oh mysterious world of all light, thou hast made a light shine within me, and I have grown in admiration of thy antique beauty, which is the immemorial youth of nature.

Paul Gauguin 151 quotes

Follow the masters! But why sh...

Follow the masters! But why should one follow them? The only reason they are masters is that they didn't follow anybody!

Paul Gauguin 151 quotes

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