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Art
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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
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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.
-Paul Gauguin
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It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.
-Paul Gauguin
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Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
-Paul Gauguin
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Artist, The
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Sooner or later people will learn to recognize your worth
-Paul Gauguin
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The flat sound of my wooden clogs on the cobblestones, deep, hollow and powerful, is the note I seek in my painting.
-Paul Gauguin
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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.
-Paul Gauguin
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Criticism
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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
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Diets and Dieting
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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.
-Paul Gauguin
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Evangelism
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The missionary is no longer a man, a conscience. He is a corpse, in the hands of a confraternity, without family, without love, without any of the sentiments that are dear to us. Emasculated, in a sense, by his vow of chastity, he offers us the distressing spectacle of a man deformed and impotent or engaged in a stupid and useless struggle with the sacred needs of the flesh, a struggle which, seven times out of ten, leads him to sodomy, the gallows, or prison.
-Paul Gauguin
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Ignorance & Stupidity
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We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves.
-Paul Gauguin
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Life
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Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
-Paul Gauguin
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Philosophy
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Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?
-Paul Gauguin
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Photography
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Do you know what will soon be the ultimate in truth?
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Revenge
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Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.
-Paul Gauguin
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Time
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Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!
-Paul Gauguin
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Books by and about Paul Gauguin