I'd like to write the way I do my paintings, that is, as fantasy takes me, as the moon dictates. Paul Gauguin More Quotes by Paul Gauguin More Quotes From Paul Gauguin Color! What a deep and mysterious language, the language of dreams. Paul Gauguin mysteriouscolordream I shut my eyes in order to see. Paul Gauguin beautifulinspirationallife Color which, like music, is a matter of vibrations, reaches what is most general and therefore most indefinable in nature: its inner power. Paul Gauguin colorvibrationsmatter Civilization is what makes you sick. Paul Gauguin sickcivilization I have come to an unalterable decision - to go and live forever in Polynesia. Then I can end my days in peace and freedom, without thoughts of tomorrow and this eternal struggle against idiots. Paul Gauguin decisionstruggleforever Do not copy nature. Art is an abstraction. Rather, bring your art forth by dreaming in front of her and think more of creation. Paul Gauguin dreamartthinking Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty? Paul Gauguin creativephilosophyart Stay firmly in your path and dare; be wild two hours a day! Paul Gauguin learningteachingtwo Art is either revolution or plagiarism Paul Gauguin plagiarismrevolutionart 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 finishingdetailsfirsts Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity! Paul Gauguin eternitylittleslife We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves. Paul Gauguin stupiditystupidsilly Let everything about you breathe the calm and peace of the soul. Paul Gauguin calmbreathesoul My eyes close and uncomprehendingly see the dream in the infinite space that stretches away, elusive, before me. Paul Gauguin spaceeyedream Take care not to step on the foot of a learned idiot. His bite is incurable. Paul Gauguin carefeetsteps 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 fogsoulyellow There are noble tones, ordinary ones, tranquil harmonies, consoling ones, others which excite by their vigour. Paul Gauguin tonenobleordinary Nature has mysterious infinities and imaginative power. It is always varying the productions it offers to us. The artist himself is one of nature's means. Paul Gauguin infinityartistmean I have tried to establish the right to dare everything. Paul Gauguin dare Art = a mad search for individualism. Paul Gauguin individualismmadart
