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One's state of mind is three-quarters of what counts, so it has to be carefully nurtured if you want to do something great and lasting. — Paul Gauguin

I've never really understood the term 'Post-Impressionism' as more than a label for Cezanne, Gauguin and van Gogh. — Nigel Hamilton

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

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

Civilization is what makes you sick. — Paul Gauguin

Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge. — Paul Gauguin

Silence! I am learning to know the silence of a Tahitian night. — Paul Gauguin

I have tried to establish the right to dare everything. — Paul Gauguin

If instead of a figure you put the shadow only of a person, you have found an original starting point, that strangeness of which you have calculated. — Paul Gauguin

Color which, like music, is a matter of vibrations, reaches what is most general and therefore most indefinable in nature: its inner power. — Paul Gauguin

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

Today one can dare anything, and, furthermore, nobody is surprised. — Paul Gauguin

How to re-light the fire the very ashes of which are scattered? — Paul Gauguin

Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite. — Paul Gauguin

My God! How terrible these money questions are for an artist! — Paul Gauguin

Art = a mad search for individualism. — Paul Gauguin

Go on working, freely and furiously, and you will make progress. — Paul Gauguin

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

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

Do not copy nature too much. Art is an abstraction. — Paul Gauguin

I tried to make everything breathe in this painting: faith, quiet suffering, religious and primitive style, and great nature with its scream. — Paul Gauguin

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

Follow the masters! But why should one follow them? The only reason they are masters is that they didn't follow anybody! — Paul Gauguin

If you see a tree as blue, then make it blue. — Paul Gauguin

Absinthe is the only decent drink that suits an artist. — Paul Gauguin

I studied all about Gauguin. He was a banker. He was a banker who - he used to paint on Sundays. And one day he hated himself for painting on Sundays. — Anthony Quinn

The critics can say stupid things and we can enjoy them, if we have the legitimate feeling of superiority - the satisfaction of a duty accomplished. — Paul Gauguin

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

Why work? The gods are there to lavish upon the faithful the good gifts of nature. — Paul Gauguin

I made a promise to keep a watch over myself, to remain master of myself, so that I might become a sure observer. — Paul Gauguin

A meter of green is greener than a centimeter. — Paul Gauguin

A critic is someone who meddles with something that is none of his business. — Paul Gauguin

I shut my eyes in order to see. — Paul Gauguin

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

A young man who is unable to commit a folly is already an old man. — Paul Gauguin

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

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

It is well for young men to have a model, but let them draw the curtain over it while they are painting. — Paul Gauguin

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses. — Paul Gauguin

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

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

Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty? — Paul Gauguin

However depressed I may be I am not in the habit of giving up a project without having tried everything, even the 'impossible', to gain my end. — Paul Gauguin

Why did I hesitate to put all this glory of the sun on my canvas? — Paul Gauguin

Color! What a deep and mysterious language, the language of dreams. — Paul Gauguin

How do you see this tree? Is it green?
... Don't be afraid to paint it as green as possible. — Paul Gauguin

I have always wanted a mistress who was fat, and I have never found one. To make a fool of me, they are always pregnant. — Paul Gauguin

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

Sooner or later people will learn to recognize your worth — Paul Gauguin

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

Beware of luxury! Beware of acquiring the taste and need for it, under the pretext of providing for the morrow ... — Paul Gauguin

Civilization is paralysis. — Paul Gauguin

Machines have come, art has fled, and I am far from thinking photography can help us. — Paul Gauguin

Nothing so resembles a daub as a masterpiece. — Paul Gauguin

The work of a man is the explanation of the man. — Paul Gauguin

It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block. — Paul Gauguin

Seek art and abstraction in nature by dreaming in the presence of it. — Paul Gauguin

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

Literary poetry in a painter is something special, and is neither illustration nor the translation of writing by form. — Paul Gauguin

It is so small a thing, the life of a man, and yet there is time to do great things, fragments of a common task. — Paul Gauguin

With practice the craft will come almost of itself, in spite of you and all the more easitly if you think of something besides technique. — Paul Gauguin

Where do we come from?" "What are we?""Where are we going? — Paul Gauguin

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

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

Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity! — Paul Gauguin

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

We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves. — Paul Gauguin

I was aware that on my skill as a painter would depend the physical and moral possession of the model ... — Paul Gauguin

What still concerns me the most is: am I on the right track, am I making progress, am I making mistakes in art? — Paul Gauguin

31. "Shut your eyes in order to see." ~ — Paul Gauguin

A nude by Degas is chaste. But his women wash in tubs! ... — Paul Gauguin

Stay firmly in your path and dare; be wild two hours a day! — Paul Gauguin

Many excellent cooks are spoilt by going into the arts. — Paul Gauguin

Solitude is not to be recommended to everyone, for you have to be strong in order to bear it and act alone. — Paul Gauguin

The single most powerful tool for winning a negotiation is the ability to get up and walk away from the table without a deal — Paul Gauguin

The flat sound of my wooden clogs on the cobblestones, deep, hollow and powerful, is the note I seek in my painting. — Paul Gauguin

There is no such thing as exaggerated art. I even believe that there is salvation only in extreme. — Paul Gauguin

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

Don't over finish your work. There is value to done. — Paul Gauguin

It is better to paint from memory, for thus your work will be your own ... — Paul Gauguin

In art there are only two types of people: revolutionaries and plagiarists — Paul Gauguin

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

Wherever I go I need a period of incubation so that I may learn the essence of nature, which never wishes to be understood or yield herself. — Paul Gauguin

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

Let everything about you breathe the calm and peace of the soul. — Paul Gauguin

Take care not to step on the foot of a learned idiot. His bite is incurable. — Paul Gauguin

On an instrument you start from one tone. In painting you start from several. — Paul Gauguin

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

Is there a recipe for making beauty? The schools give recipes, but they do not beget works that make people exclaim: How beautiful that is! — Paul Gauguin

Art is either a plagiarist or a revolutionist. — Paul Gauguin

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

When you see a Gauguin, you think, This man is living in a dream world. When you see a van Gogh, you think, This dream world is living in a man. — Adam Gopnik

Without delay I began work, without hesitation and all of a fever. — Paul Gauguin

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

Happiness and work rose up together with the sun, radiant like it. — Paul Gauguin

Art is either revolution or plagiarism — Paul Gauguin

I'd like to write the way I do my paintings, that is, as fantasy takes me, as the moon dictates. — Paul Gauguin