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On an instrument you start from one tone. In painting you start from several.
Paul Gauguin
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Paul Gauguin
Age: 55 †
Born: 1848
Born: January 1
Died: 1903
Died: January 1
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Paris
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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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Seek art and abstraction in nature by dreaming in the presence of it.
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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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Soon I'll be old and I've done precious little in this world for lack of time. I am always afraid I'll become senile before I've finished what I've undertaken.
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I shut my eyes in order to see.
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