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Follow the masters! But why should one follow them? The only reason they are masters is that they didn't follow anybody!
Paul Gauguin
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Paul Gauguin
Age: 55 †
Born: 1848
Born: January 1
Died: 1903
Died: January 1
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Without delay I began work, without hesitation and all of a fever.
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I sit at my door, smoking a cigarette and sipping my absinthe, and I enjoy every day without a care in the world
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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 made a promise to keep a watch over myself, to remain master of myself, so that I might become a sure observer.
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