Paul Gauguin Quotes - Page 2

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• Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?

  Paul Gauguin

  Art, Philosophy, Creative

  Paul Gauguin (1921). “Gauguin's Intimate Journals”, p.109, Courier Corporation

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• Whatever may happen the sun will rise tomorrow as it rose to-day, beneficent and serene.

  Paul Gauguin

  Future, Rose, May

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• Civilization is what makes you sick.

  Paul Gauguin

  Civilization, Sick

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

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• In order to produce something new, you have to return to the original source, to the childhood of mankind.

  Paul Gauguin

  Order, Childhood, Return

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

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• There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite.

  Paul Gauguin

  Fashion, Art, Clothes

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I have tried to establish the right to dare everything.

  Paul Gauguin

  Dare

  Letter to George-Daniel de Monfreid, Marquesas Islands, October 1902.

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• Sooner or later people will learn to recognize your worth

  Paul Gauguin

  People, Sooner Or Later

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

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• Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will.

  Paul Gauguin

  Meaning Of Life, Limits, Life Has No Meaning

  Paul Gauguin (1921). “Gauguin's Intimate Journals”, p.110, Courier Corporation

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• I am entering into the truth, into nature.

  Paul Gauguin

  Truth, Entering

  Paul Gauguin (2012). “Noa Noa: The Tahitian Journal”, p.17, Courier Corporation

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• The great artist is a formulation of the greatest intelligence: he is the recipient of sensations which are the most delicate and consequently the most invisible expressions of the brain.

  Paul Gauguin

  Artist, Expression, Brain

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

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• The public wants to understand and learn in a single day, a single minute, what the artist has spent years learning.

  Paul Gauguin

  Time, Artist, Years

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

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

  Paul Gauguin

  Suggestions, Done, Painting

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• 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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• Do not finish your work too much. An impression is not sufficiently durable for its first freshness to survive a belated search for infinite detail; in this way you let the lava grow cool.

  Paul Gauguin

  Firsts, Finishing, Details

  Paul Gauguin (2012). “Gauguin's Intimate Journals”, p.28, Courier Corporation

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• Civilization is paralysis.

  Paul Gauguin

  Art, Philosophy, Civilization

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• How to re-light the fire the very ashes of which are scattered?

  Paul Gauguin

  Fire, Light, Ashes

  Paul Gauguin (2012). “Noa Noa: The Tahitian Journal”, p.7, Courier Corporation

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• 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

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• 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

  Nature, Powerful, Heart

  Paul Gauguin (2012). “Noa Noa: The Tahitian Journal”, p.21, Courier Corporation

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• The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.

  Paul Gauguin

  Art, Loss, Architecture

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

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• The work of a man is the explanation of the man.

  Paul Gauguin

  Work, Men, He Man

  Paul Gauguin (1985). “Noa Noa: Gauguin's Tahiti”

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• Poor artist! You gave away part of your soul when you painted the picture which you are now trying to dispose of.

  Paul Gauguin

  Artist, Soul, Trying

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• It is useless to advise solitude for everyone; one must be strong enough to endure it and to work alone.

  Paul Gauguin

  Strong, Solitude, Useless

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• In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are masters.

  Paul Gauguin

  Art, Done, Revolutionary

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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