Paul Gauguin Quotes About Critics

Quotes about: Critics

• 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

• There are two sorts of beauty; one is the result of instinct, the other of study. A combination of the two, with the resulting modifications, brings with it a very complicated richness, which the art critic ought to try to discover.

  Paul Gauguin

  Art, Two, Trying

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

  Paul Gauguin

  Critics

• 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

  Waiting, Brain, Way

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

• 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

  Stupid, Feelings, Satisfaction

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