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

Paul Gauguin

#Color Quotes #Matter Quotes #Vibrations Quotes

“I respond well to what I read of Immanuel Kants idea that the world as we see it is absolutely a function of the way our brain works. In the modern parlance, its an evolved machine that we carry with us.”
“I've always been a bit ambitious, but I do think the Green Party is the real opposition.”
“Yea, much more those that seem to be the more feeble members of the body, are more necessary. And such as we think to be the less honourable members of the body, about these we put more abundant honour; and those that are our uncomely parts, have more abundant comeliness. But our comely parts have no need [...”
“Fight with a happy heart.”
“The best thing to do is to loosen my grip on my pen and let it go wandering about until it finds an entrance. There must be one â€“ everything depends on the circumstances, a rule applicable as much to literary style as to life. Each word tugs another one along, one idea another, and that is how books, governments and revolutions are made â€“ some even say that is how Nature created her species.”

Source : Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (2010). “The Devil's Church and Other Stories”, p.11, University of Texas Press
“My mother was an economics professor. I'm proficient in math, and statistics, game theory, symbolic logic and all of that.”
“The major newspapers simply stopped writing about me, and my voice could no longer be heard on radio or television.”
“He who has learned to look to God in everything he does is at the same time diverted from all vain thoughts.”

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