Paul Gauguin Quotes About Dreams

Quotes about: Dreams

• Color! What a deep and mysterious language, the language of dreams.

  Paul Gauguin

  Dream, Color, Mysterious

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

• Seek art and abstraction in nature by dreaming in the presence of it.

  Paul Gauguin

  Dream, Art, Nature

• Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.

  Paul Gauguin

  Life, Dream, Revenge

  Paul Gauguin (1921). “Gauguin's Intimate Journals”, p.16, Courier Corporation

• My eyes close and uncomprehendingly see the dream in the infinite space that stretches away, elusive, before me.

  Paul Gauguin

  Dream, Eye, Space

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

• 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

• Do not copy nature. Art is an abstraction. Rather, bring your art forth by dreaming in front of her and think more of creation.

  Paul Gauguin

  Dream, Art, Thinking

• 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

  Dream, Eye, Night

• 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

  Dream, Art, Advice

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

• 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).

• Life is merely a fraction of a second. An infinitely small amount of time to fulfill our desires, our dreams, our passions.

  Paul Gauguin

  Dream, Passion, Desire

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

  Paul Gauguin

  Dream, Looks, Form

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

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