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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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I am a great artist and I know it, it is because I am that I have been able to endure so much suffering.
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A bit of advice, don't copy nature too closely. Art is an abstraction as you dream amid nature, extrapolate art from it, and concentrate on what you will create as a result.
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The critics can say stupid things and we can enjoy them, if we have the legitimate feeling of superiority - the satisfaction of a duty accomplished.
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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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There are tonalities which are noble and others which are vulgar, harmonies which are calm or consoling, and others which are exciting because of their boldness.
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Literary poetry in a painter is something special, and is neither illustration nor the translation of writing by form.
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Nothing so resembles a daub as a masterpiece.
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