Paul Gauguin Quotes About Painting

Quotes about: Painting

• And here in my isolation I can grow stronger. Poetry seems to come of itself, without effort, and I need only let myself dream a little while painting to suggest it.

  Paul Gauguin

  Dream, Being Alone, Creativity

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

  Paul Gauguin

  Powerful, Sound, Cobblestone

  Naomi E. Maurer, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin (1998). “The Pursuit of Spiritual Wisdom: The Thought and Art of Vincent Van Gogh and Paul Gauguin”, p.119, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

• A critic in my house sees some paintings. Greatly perturbed, he asks for my drawings. My drawings? Never! They are my letters, my secrets.

  Paul Gauguin

  Art, Drawing, House

  Paul Gauguin (1921). “Gauguin's Intimate Journals”, p.88, Courier Corporation

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

  Paul Gauguin

  Writing, Moon, Way

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

  Paul Gauguin

  Men, Painting, Curtains

  Paul Gauguin (2012). “Gauguin's Intimate Journals”, p.27, Courier Corporation

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

  Paul Gauguin

  Suggestions, Done, Painting

• On an instrument you start from one tone. In painting you start from several.

  Paul Gauguin

  Tone, Painting, Instruments

• You may dream freely when you listen to music as well as when you look at painting. When you read a book you are the slave of the author's mind.

  Paul Gauguin

  Dream, Book, Mind

  c.1888 Notes Synthe¤tiques, quoted in J Rewald Gauguin (1938).

• No one wants my painting because it is different from other people's peculiar, crazy public that demands the greatest possible degree of originality on the painter's part and yet won't accept him unless his work resembles that of the others!

  Paul Gauguin

  Crazy, People, Want

  Paul Gauguin (1978). “The writings of a savage”, Viking Adult

• 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

  Ideas, Remembrance, Painting

  Paul Gauguin (1921). “Gauguin's Intimate Journals”, p.10, Courier Corporation

• Painting is the most beautiful of all arts. In it, all sensations are condensed, at its aspect everyone may create romance at the will of his imagination, and at a glance have his soul invaded by the most profound memories, no efforts of memory, everything summed up in one moment. Complete art which sums up all the others and completes them.

  Paul Gauguin

  Beautiful, Art, Memories

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