Paul Gaugin Quotes - click name for biography
· The flat sound of my wooden clogs on the cobblestones, deep, hollow and powerful, is the note I seek in my painting.
- Paul Gauguin
· I wished to suggest by means of a simple nude, a certain long-lost barbaric luxury.
- Paul Gauguin
· Oh yes! he loved yellow, this good Vincent, this painter from Holland - those glimmers of sunlight rekindled his soul, that abhorred the fog, that needed the warmth.
- Paul Gauguin
· We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves.
- Paul Gauguin
· 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
· Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
- Paul Gauguin
· 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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