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We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves.
Paul Gauguin
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Paul Gauguin
Age: 55 †
Born: 1848
Born: January 1
Died: 1903
Died: January 1
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Seek art and abstraction in nature by dreaming in the presence of it.
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I am a great artist and I know it. It's because of what I am that I have endured so much suffering, so as to pursue my vocation, otherwise I would consider myself a rogue - which is what many people think I am, for that matter.
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Whatever may happen the sun will rise tomorrow as it rose to-day, beneficent and serene.
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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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It was so simple to paint things as I saw them to put without special calculation a red close to a blue.
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Take care not to step on the foot of a learned idiot. His bite is incurable.
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Today one can dare anything, and, furthermore, nobody is surprised.
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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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