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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
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
I have tried to establish the right to dare everything.
— Paul Gauguin
In order to produce something new, you have to return to the original source, to the childhood of mankind.
— Paul Gauguin
Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.
— Paul Gauguin
Art = a mad search for individualism.
— 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
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
The landscape with its violent, pure colours dazzled and blinded me. I was always uncertain ...
— Paul Gauguin
A time will come when people will think I am a myth, or rather something the newspapers have made up.
— 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
I shut my eyes in order to see.
— 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
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
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
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
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
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
A nude by Degas is chaste. But his women wash in tubs! ...
— Paul Gauguin
Where do we come from?" "What are we?""Where are we going?
— 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
I was aware that on my skill as a painter would depend the physical and moral possession of the model ...
— 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
31. "Shut your eyes in order to see." ~
— Paul Gauguin
Stay firmly in your path and dare; be wild two hours a day!
— Paul Gauguin
Don't over finish your work. There is value to done.
— 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
A great sentiment can be rendered immediately. Dream on it and look for the simplest form in which you can express it.
— 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
There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite.
— Paul Gauguin
There are noble tones, ordinary ones, tranquil harmonies, consoling ones, others which excite by their vigour.
— 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
Many excellent cooks are spoilt by going into the arts.
— 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
In painting one must search rather for suggestion than for description, as is done in music.
— Paul Gauguin
Art is either revolution or plagiarism
— Paul Gauguin