Paul Gauguin famous quotes

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

#Inspirational #Life #Beautiful

Oh yes! he loved yellow, this good Vincent, this painter from Holland - those glimmers of sunlight rekindled his soul, that abhorred the fog, that needed the warmth.
-- Paul Gauguin

#Yellow #Fog #Soul

Art is either revolution or plagiarism
-- Paul Gauguin

#Art #Revolution #Plagiarism

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

#Dream #Color #Mysterious

I have come to an unalterable decision - to go and live forever in Polynesia. Then I can end my days in peace and freedom, without thoughts of tomorrow and this eternal struggle against idiots.
-- Paul Gauguin

#Struggle #Decision #Forever

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

#Life #Littles #Eternity

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

#Stupid #Silly #Stupidity

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

#Color #Matter #Vibrations

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

#Dream #Art #Nature

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
-- Paul Gauguin

#Winning #Order #Evil

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

#Fashion #Clothes #Design

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

#Green #Meter #Greener

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

#Art #Block #Ignorance

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

#People #Sooner Or Later

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

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

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

#Art #Too Much #Art Is

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

#Nature #Essence #Yield

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

#Art #Mistake #Track

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

#Stress #Opposites #Keys

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

#Progress #Goes On

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

#Life #Dream #Revenge

Under the continual contact with the pebbles my feet have become hardened and used to the ground. My body, almost constantly nude, no longer suffers from the sun. Civilization is falling from me little by little. I am beginning to think simply, to feel only very little hatred for my neighbor - rather, to love him.
-- Paul Gauguin

#Fall #Thinking #Civilization

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

#Powerful #Winning #Tools

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

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

#Powerful #Cobblestone #Sound

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

#Dream #Art #Thinking

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

#Mistress #Fool #Obesity

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

#Art #Art Is

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

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

#Insightful #Mind #Three

Oh yes! He loved yellow, did good Vincent...When the two of us were together in Arles, both of us insane, and constantly at war over beautiful colors, I adored red; where could I find a perfect vermilion?
-- Paul Gauguin

#Beautiful #War #Two

The missionary is no longer a man, a conscience. He is a corpse, in the hands of a confraternity, without family, without love, without any of the sentiments that are dear to us. Emasculated, in a sense, by his vow of chastity, he offers us the distressing spectacle of a man deformed and impotent or engaged in a stupid and useless struggle with the sacred needs of the flesh, a struggle which, seven times out of ten, leads him to sodomy, the gallows, or prison.
-- Paul Gauguin

#Stupid #Struggle #Men

Do you know what will soon be the ultimate in truth?
-- Paul Gauguin

#Photography #Ultimate

Soon I'll be old and I've done precious little in this world for lack of time. I am always afraid I'll become senile before I've finished what I've undertaken.
-- Paul Gauguin

#Done #World #Littles

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

#Blue #Tree