Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
A time will come when people will think I am a myth, or rather something the newspapers have made up.
Paul Gauguin
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Paul Gauguin
Age: 55 †
Born: 1848
Born: January 1
Died: 1903
Died: January 1
Artist
Drawer
Graphic Artist
Painter
Sculptor
Paris
France
Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin
Eugene Henri Paul Gauguin
Paul Gaugin
Eugene-Henri Gauguin
Kao-keng
Pablo Gauguin
Eugène-Henri-Paul Gauguin
Gauguin
Polʹ Gogen
Paul Eugène Henri Gauguin
Eugène Henry Paul Gauguin
Eugene-Henri-Paul Gauguin
Paul Eugene Henri Gauguin
Eugene Henry Paul Gauguin
p. gauguin
gauguin paul
P. gaugin
People
Myth
Rather
Come
Made
Something
Time
Think
Thinking
Newspapers
More quotes by Paul Gauguin
Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.
Paul Gauguin
Poor artist! You gave away part of your soul when you painted the picture which you are now trying to dispose of.
Paul Gauguin
A young man who is unable to commit a folly is already an old man.
Paul Gauguin
I plunged eagerly and passionately into the wilderness, as if in the hope of thus penetrating into the very heart of this Nature, powerful and maternal, there to blend with her living elements.
Paul Gauguin
In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary and it is they alone who are masters.
Paul Gauguin
What still concerns me the most is: am I on the right track, am I making progress, am I making mistakes in art?
Paul Gauguin
Machines have come, art has fled, and I am far from thinking photography can help us.
Paul Gauguin
There are two sorts of beauty one is the result of instinct, the other of study. A combination of the two, with the resulting modifications, brings with it a very complicated richness, which the art critic ought to try to discover.
Paul Gauguin
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.
Paul Gauguin
Oh mysterious world of all light, thou hast made a light shine within me, and I have grown in admiration of thy antique beauty, which is the immemorial youth of nature.
Paul Gauguin
Out in the sun, some painters are lined up. The first is copying nature, the second is copying the first, the third is copying the second... You see the sequence.
Paul Gauguin
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.
Paul Gauguin
In art, there are only two types of people: revolutionaries and plagiarists. And in the end, doesn't the revolutionary's work become official, once the State takes it over?
Paul Gauguin
Color! What a deep and mysterious language, the language of dreams.
Paul Gauguin
Silence! I am learning to know the silence of a Tahitian night.
Paul Gauguin
Seek art and abstraction in nature by dreaming in the presence of it.
Paul Gauguin
Without delay I began work, without hesitation and all of a fever.
Paul Gauguin
It was so simple to paint things as I saw them to put without special calculation a red close to a blue.
Paul Gauguin
Painting is the most beautiful of all arts. In it, all sensations are condensed, at its aspect everyone may create romance at the will of his imagination, and at a glance have his soul invaded by the most profound memories, no efforts of memory, everything summed up in one moment. Complete art which sums up all the others and completes them.
Paul Gauguin
Lacking many of the essential implements, it irritated me to be reduced to impotence in the face of artistic projects to which I had passionately given myself.
Paul Gauguin
