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Paul Gauguin Inspirational Quotes (85)

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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.
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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.
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The great artist is a formulation of the greatest intelligence: he is the recipient of sensations which are the most delicate and consequently the most invisible expressions of the brain.
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Do not finish your work too much. An impression is not sufficiently durable for its first freshness to survive a belated search for infinite detail in this way you let the lava grow cool.
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Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
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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.
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Art is either a plagiarist or a revolutionist.
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A time will come when people will think I am a myth, or rather something the newspapers have made up.
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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.
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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.
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It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object beware of this stumbling block.
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Do you know what will soon be the ultimate in truth? - photography, once it begins to reproduce colors, and that won't be long in coming. And yet you want an intelligent man to sweat for months so as to give the illusion he can do something as well as an ingenious little machine can!
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A great sentiment can be rendered immediately. Dream on it and look for the simplest form in which you can express it.
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Life is merely a fraction of a second. An infinitely small amount of time to fulfill our desires, our dreams, our passions.
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It is well for young men to have a model, but let them draw the curtain over it while they are painting.
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A nude by Degas is chaste. But his women wash in tubs!
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By the combination of lines and colors, under the pretext of some motif taken from nature, I create symphonies and harmonies that represent nothing absolutely real in the ordinary sense of the word but are intended to give rise to thoughts as music does.
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It is better to paint from memory, for thus your work will be your own.
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Without delay I began work, without hesitation and all of a fever.
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Beware of luxury! Beware of acquiring the taste and need for it, under the pretext of providing for the morrow.
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In order to produce something new, you have to return to the original source, to the childhood of mankind.
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There are tonalities which are noble and others which are vulgar, harmonies which are calm or consoling, and others which are exciting because of their boldness.
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Machines have come, art has fled, and I am far from thinking photography can help us.
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There are two sorts of beauty one is the result of instinct, the other of study. A combination of the two, with the resulting modifications, brings with it a very complicated richness, which the art critic ought to try to discover.
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