Paul Gauguin Quotes
Top 94 wise famous quotes and sayings by Paul Gauguin
Paul Gauguin Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Paul Gauguin on Wise Famous Quotes.
One's state of mind is three-quarters of what counts, so it has to be carefully nurtured if you want to do something great and lasting.
The public wants to understand and learn in a single day, a single minute, what the artist has spent years learning.
Beautiful colors exist, though we do not realize it, and are glimpsed behind the veil that modesty has drawn over them.
If instead of a figure you put the shadow only of a person, you have found an original starting point, that strangeness of which you have calculated.
Color which, like music, is a matter of vibrations, reaches what is most general and therefore most indefinable in nature: its inner power.
In order to produce something new, you have to return to the original source, to the childhood of mankind.
Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.
It is useless to advise solitude for everyone; one must be strong enough to endure it and to work alone.
My eyes close and uncomprehendingly see the dream in the infinite space that stretches away, elusive, before me.
I tried to make everything breathe in this painting: faith, quiet suffering, religious and primitive style, and great nature with its scream.
It was so simple to paint things as I saw them; to put without special calculation a red close to a blue.
Follow the masters! But why should one follow them? The only reason they are masters is that they didn't follow anybody!
A time will come when people will think I am a myth, or rather something the newspapers have made up.
I made a promise to keep a watch over myself, to remain master of myself, so that I might become a sure observer.
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.
It is well for young men to have a model, but let them draw the curtain over it while they are painting.
A critic in my house sees some paintings. Greatly perturbed, he asks for my drawings. My drawings? Never! They are my letters, my secrets.
Sometimes people accuse me of being incomprehensible only because they look for an explicative side to my pictures which is not there.
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.
Poor artist! You gave away part of your soul when you painted the picture which you are now trying to dispose of.
You may dream freely when you listen to music as well as when you look at painting. When you read a book you are the slave of the author's mind.
Beware of luxury! Beware of acquiring the taste and need for it, under the pretext of providing for the morrow ...
It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.
Look closely at the Japanese; they draw admirably and yet in them you will see life outdoors and in the sun without shadows ...
Literary poetry in a painter is something special, and is neither illustration nor the translation of writing by form.
It is so small a thing, the life of a man, and yet there is time to do great things, fragments of a common task.
What still concerns me the most is: am I on the right track, am I making progress, am I making mistakes in art?
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.
I sit at my door, smoking a cigarette and sipping my absinthe, and I enjoy every day without a care in the world
Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!
Life is merely a fraction of a second. An infinitely small amount of time to fulfill our desires, our dreams, our passions.
I was aware that on my skill as a painter would depend the physical and moral possession of the model ...
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.
Solitude is not to be recommended to everyone, for you have to be strong in order to bear it and act alone.
A great sentiment can be rendered immediately. Dream on it and look for the simplest form in which you can express it.
The flat sound of my wooden clogs on the cobblestones, deep, hollow and powerful, is the note I seek in my painting.
However depressed I may be I am not in the habit of giving up a project without having tried everything, even the 'impossible', to gain my end.
Wherever I go I need a period of incubation so that I may learn the essence of nature, which never wishes to be understood or yield herself.
There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite.
There are noble tones, ordinary ones, tranquil harmonies, consoling ones, others which excite by their vigour.
Is there a recipe for making beauty? The schools give recipes, but they do not beget works that make people exclaim: How beautiful that is!
Do not copy nature. Art is an abstraction. Rather, bring your art forth by dreaming in front of her and think more of creation.