Paul Gauguin Quotes - Page 5

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• A nude by Degas is chaste. But his women wash in tubs!

  Paul Gauguin

  Degas, Tubs, Chaste

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

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• Oh mysterious world... I have become better for having understood and having loved thy human soul - a flower which has ceased to bloom and whose fragrance no one henceforth will breathe.

  Paul Gauguin

  Flower, Soul, World

  Paul Gauguin (1920). “Noa Noa”, p.65, Courier Corporation

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• Beautiful colors exist, though we do not realize it, and are glimpsed behind the veil that modesty has drawn over them.

  Paul Gauguin

  Beautiful, Color, Veils

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• A hint - don't paint too much direct from nature. Art is an abstraction! study nature then brood on it and treasure the creation which will result, which is the only way to ascend towards God - to create like our Divine Master.

  Paul Gauguin

  Art, Hints, Treasure

  Paul Gauguin (2003). “Letters to His Wife and Friends”, Museum of Fine Arts Boston

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• 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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• Sometimes people accuse me of being incomprehensible only because they look for an explicative side to my pictures which is not there.

  Paul Gauguin

  People, Looks, Sides

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• Look closely at the Japanese; they draw admirably and yet in them you will see life outdoors and in the sun without shadows.

  Paul Gauguin

  Light, Shadow, Looks

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

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• 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

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• When the physical organism breaks up, the soul survives. It then takes on another body.

  Paul Gauguin

  Soul, Body, Reincarnation

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• 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

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• All the joys - animal and human - of a free life are mine. I have escaped everything that is artificial, conventional, customary.

  Paul Gauguin

  Freedom, Animal, Joy

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

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• Silence! I am learning to know the silence of a Tahitian night.

  Paul Gauguin

  Night, Silence, Knows

  Paul Gauguin (2012). “Noa Noa: The Tahitian Journal”, p.10, Courier Corporation

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• 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”

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• 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

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• Nothing so resembles a daub as a masterpiece.

  Paul Gauguin

  Art, Masterpiece

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• Having the certitude of a succession of days... equally free and beautiful, peace descends on me.

  Paul Gauguin

  Beautiful, Peace, Succession

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

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• 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

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• It was so simple to paint things as I saw them; to put without special calculation a red close to a blue.

  Paul Gauguin

  Simple, Blue, Simplicity

  Paul Gauguin (2012). “Noa Noa: The Tahitian Journal”, p.12, Courier Corporation

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• Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

  Paul Gauguin

  Art, Revolution, Plagiarism

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

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• My God! How terrible these money questions are for an artist!

  Paul Gauguin

  Money, Artist, Terrible

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• The landscape with its violent, pure colours dazzled and blinded me. I was always uncertain.

  Paul Gauguin

  Confidence, Landscape, Violent

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• In art there are only two types of people: revolutionaries and plagiarists

  Paul Gauguin

  Art, Two, People

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

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• I sit at my door, smoking a cigarette and sipping my absinthe, and I enjoy every day without a care in the world

  Paul Gauguin

  Doors, Smoking, World

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• Oh mysterious world of all light, thou hast made a light shine within me, and I have grown in admiration of thy antique beauty, which is the immemorial youth of nature.

  Paul Gauguin

  Light, Shining, World

  Paul Gauguin (1920). “Noa Noa”, p.65, Courier Corporation

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• A time will come when people will think I am a myth, or rather something the newspapers have made up.

  Paul Gauguin

  Thinking, People, Newspapers

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

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