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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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Stay firmly in your path and dare be wild two hours a day!
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In painting one must search rather for suggestion than for description, as is done in music.
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Look closely at the Japanese they draw admirably and yet in them you will see life outdoors and in the sun without shadows.
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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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A hint - don't paint too much direct from nature. Art is an abstraction! study nature then brood on it and treasure the creation which will result, which is the only way to ascend towards God - to create like our Divine Master.
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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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It is well for young men to have a model, but let them draw the curtain over it while they are painting.
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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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Perhaps I have no talent, but all vanity aside - I do not believe that anyone makes an artistic attempt, no matter how small, without having a little - or there are many fools.
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Having the certitude of a succession of days... equally free and beautiful, peace descends on me.
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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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