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It is better to paint from mem...

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

Paul Gauguin 151 quotes

It is well for young men to ha...

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

Paul Gauguin 151 quotes

I was aware that on my skill a...

I was aware that on my skill as a painter would depend the physical and moral possession of the model...

Paul Gauguin 151 quotes

There is no such thing as exag...

There is no such thing as exaggerated art. I even believe that there is salvation only in extreme.

Paul Gauguin 151 quotes

My God! How terrible these mon...

My God! How terrible these money questions are for an artist!

Paul Gauguin 151 quotes

If instead of a figure you put...

If instead of a figure you put the shadow only of a person, you have found an original starting point, that strangeness of which you have calculated.

Paul Gauguin 151 quotes

Oh mysterious world... I have ...

Oh mysterious world... I have become better for having understood and having loved thy human soul - a flower which has ceased to bloom and whose fragrance no one henceforth will breathe.

Paul Gauguin 151 quotes

I plunged eagerly and passiona...

I plunged eagerly and passionately into the wilderness, as if in the hope of thus penetrating into the very heart of this Nature, powerful and maternal, there to blend with her living elements.

Paul Gauguin 151 quotes

Wherever I go I need a period ...

Wherever I go I need a period of incubation so that I may learn the essence of nature, which never wishes to be understood or yield herself.

Paul Gauguin 151 quotes

A nude by Degas is chaste. But...

A nude by Degas is chaste. But his women wash in tubs!...

Paul Gauguin 151 quotes

I made a promise to keep a wat...

I made a promise to keep a watch over myself, to remain master of myself, so that I might become a sure observer.

Paul Gauguin 151 quotes

In painting one must search ra...

In painting one must search rather for suggestion than for description, as is done in music.

Paul Gauguin 151 quotes

Having the certitude of a succ...

Having the certitude of a succession of days... equally free and beautiful, peace descends on me.

Paul Gauguin 151 quotes

for Christ's sake, were the mo...

for Christ's sake, were the mountains blue, then chuck on some blue and don't go telling me that it was a blue a bit like this or like that, it was blue wasn't it? Good - make them blue and that's enough!

Paul Gauguin 151 quotes

Do you know what will soon be ...

Do you know what will soon be the ultimate in truth? - photography, once it begins to reproduce colors, and that won't be long in coming. And yet you want an intelligent man to sweat for months so as to give the illusion he can do something as well as an ingenious little machine can!

Paul Gauguin 151 quotes

If I did what has already been...

If I did what has already been done, I would be a plagiarist and would consider myself unworthy; so I do something different and people call me a scoundrel. I'd rather be a scoundrel than a plagiarist!

Paul Gauguin 151 quotes

Literary poetry in a painter i...

Literary poetry in a painter is something special, and is neither illustration nor the translation of writing by form.

Paul Gauguin 151 quotes

The cyclone ends. The sun retu...

The cyclone ends. The sun returns; the lofty coconut trees lift up their plumes again; man does likewise. The great anguish is over; joy has returned; the sea smiles like a child.

Paul Gauguin 151 quotes

The critics can say stupid thi...

The critics can say stupid things and we can enjoy them, if we have the legitimate feeling of superiority - the satisfaction of a duty accomplished.

Paul Gauguin 151 quotes

Today one can dare anything, a...

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

Paul Gauguin 151 quotes

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