Paul Gauguin

Artist

1848-06-07

Books by Paul Gauguin

Noa Noa
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Correspondence
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Quotes by Paul Gauguin

The self-esteem one acquires and a well-earned feeling of one's strength are the only consolation in this world. Income, after all, most brutes have that.
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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. I am entering into the truth, into nature.
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Color which, like music, is a matter of vibrations, reaches what is most general and therefore most indefinable in nature: its inner power.
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Art is either revolution or plagiarism
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Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?
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Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?
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Color which, like music, is a matter of vibrations, reaches what is most general and therefore most indefinable in nature: its inner power.
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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. I am entering into the truth, into nature.
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The self-esteem one acquires and a well-earned feeling of one's strength are the only consolation in this world. Income, after all, most brutes have that.
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Art is either revolution or plagiarism
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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.
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It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.
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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.
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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 artists and the bafflement of the public.
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Art is either a plagiarist or a revolutionist.
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Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
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A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes that he has got the bigger piece.
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I shut my eyes in order to see.
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Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.
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We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves.
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