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In painting one must search rather for suggestion than for description, as is done in music.
Paul Gauguin
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Paul Gauguin
Age: 55 †
Born: 1848
Born: January 1
Died: 1903
Died: January 1
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Having the certitude of a succession of days... equally free and beautiful, peace descends on me.
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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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It is better to paint from memory, for thus your work will be your own.
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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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Art is either revolution or plagiarism
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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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We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves.
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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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Follow the masters! But why should one follow them? The only reason they are masters is that they didn't follow anybody!
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Seek art and abstraction in nature by dreaming in the presence of it.
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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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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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Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.
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The landscape with its violent, pure colours dazzled and blinded me. I was always uncertain.
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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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A young man who is unable to commit a folly is already an old man.
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I must confess that I too am a woman and that I am always prepared to applaud a woman who is more daring than I, and is equal to a man in fighting for freedom of behavior.
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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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