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Paul Gauguin Inspirational Quotes (85)

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Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!
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Poor artist! You gave away part of your soul when you painted the picture which you are now trying to dispose of.
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Oh mysterious world... I have become better for having understood and having loved thy human soul - a flower which has ceased to bloom and whose fragrance no one henceforth will breathe.
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And here in my isolation I can grow stronger. Poetry seems to come of itself, without effort, and I need only let myself dream a little while painting to suggest it.
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Oh mysterious world of all light, thou hast made a light shine within me, and I have grown in admiration of thy antique beauty, which is the immemorial youth of nature.
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for Christ's sake, were the mountains blue, then chuck on some blue and don't go telling me that it was a blue a bit like this or like that, it was blue wasn't it? Good - make them blue and that's enough!
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Art is either revolution or plagiarism
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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.
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A young man who is unable to commit a folly is already an old man.
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Take care not to step on the foot of a learned idiot. His bite is incurable.
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Stay firmly in your path and dare be wild two hours a day!
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A hint - don't paint too much direct from nature. Art is an abstraction! study nature then brood on it and treasure the creation which will result, which is the only way to ascend towards God - to create like our Divine Master.
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Painting is the most beautiful of all arts. In it, all sensations are condensed, at its aspect everyone may create romance at the will of his imagination, and at a glance have his soul invaded by the most profound memories, no efforts of memory, everything summed up in one moment. Complete art which sums up all the others and completes them.
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Let everything about you breathe the calm and peace of the soul.
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Seek art and abstraction in nature by dreaming in the presence of it.
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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.
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The landscape with its violent, pure colours dazzled and blinded me. I was always uncertain.
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Nothing so resembles a daub as a masterpiece.
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Whatever may happen the sun will rise tomorrow as it rose to-day, beneficent and serene.
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A bit of advice, don't copy nature too closely. Art is an abstraction as you dream amid nature, extrapolate art from it, and concentrate on what you will create as a result.
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We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves.
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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.
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I shut my eyes in order to see.
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Nature has mysterious infinities and imaginative power. It is always varying the productions it offers to us. The artist himself is one of nature's means.
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