Paul Gauguin Quotes About Harmony

Quotes about: Harmony

• There are tonalities which are noble and others which are vulgar, harmonies which are calm or consoling, and others which are exciting because of their boldness.

  Paul Gauguin

  Noble, Calm, Harmony

  Paul Gauguin (1955). “An Exhibition of Paintings, Engravings & Sculpture [by] Gauguin”

• There are noble tones, ordinary ones, tranquil harmonies, consoling ones, others which excite by their vigour.

  Paul Gauguin

  Ordinary, Noble, Tone

  1885 Letter to Emile Schuffenecker

• Many people say that I don't know how to draw because I don't draw particular forms. When will they understand that execution, drawing and color (in other words, style) must be in harmony with the poem?

  Paul Gauguin

  Drawing, Color, People

  Letter to Charles Morice, July 1901.

• By the combination of lines and colors, under the pretext of some motif taken from nature, I create symphonies and harmonies that represent nothing absolutely real in the ordinary sense of the word but are intended to give rise to thoughts as music does.

  Paul Gauguin

  Real, Taken, Color

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