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Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!
Paul Gauguin
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Paul Gauguin
Age: 55 †
Born: 1848
Born: January 1
Died: 1903
Died: January 1
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A young man who is unable to commit a folly is already an old man.
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If I did what has already been done, I would be a plagiarist and would consider myself unworthy so I do something different and people call me a scoundrel. I'd rather be a scoundrel than a plagiarist!
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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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However depressed I may be I am not in the habit of giving up a project without having tried everything, even the 'impossible', to gain my end.
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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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I plunged eagerly and passionately into the wilderness, as if in the hope of thus penetrating into the very heart of this Nature, powerful and maternal, there to blend with her living elements.
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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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The landscape with its violent, pure colours dazzled and blinded me. I was always uncertain.
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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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Seek art and abstraction in nature by dreaming in the presence of it.
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Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will.
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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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