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Literary poetry in a painter is something special, and is neither illustration nor the translation of writing by form.
Paul Gauguin
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Paul Gauguin
Age: 55 †
Born: 1848
Born: January 1
Died: 1903
Died: January 1
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Today one can dare anything, and, furthermore, nobody is surprised.
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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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I shut my eyes in order to see.
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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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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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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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Under the continual contact with the pebbles my feet have become hardened and used to the ground. My body, almost constantly nude, no longer suffers from the sun. Civilization is falling from me little by little. I am beginning to think simply, to feel only very little hatred for my neighbor - rather, to love him.
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I have always wanted a mistress who was fat, and I have never found one. To make a fool of me, they are always pregnant.
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But I owe something to Vincent, and that is, in the consciousness of having been useful to him, the confirmation of my own original ideas about painting. And also, at difficult moments, the remembrance that one finds others unhappier than oneself.
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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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Stay firmly in your path and dare be wild two hours a day!
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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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Take care not to step on the foot of a learned idiot. His bite is incurable.
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Go on working, freely and furiously, you will make progress and sooner or later your worth will be recognised, if you have any.
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