I shut my eyes in order to see. Paul Gauguin More Quotes by Paul Gauguin More Quotes From Paul Gauguin The landscape with its violent, pure colours dazzled and blinded me. I was always uncertain. Paul Gauguin violent landscape confidence 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. Paul Gauguin yield nature essence Do not copy nature too much. Art is an abstraction. Paul Gauguin copies too-much art for Christ's sake, were the mountains blue, then chuck on some blue and don't go telling me that it was a blue a bit like this or like that, it was blue wasn't it? Good - make them blue and that's enough! Paul Gauguin mountain perfection blue 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. Paul Gauguin mind dream book Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite. Paul Gauguin stress keys opposites A young man who is unable to commit a folly is already an old man. Paul Gauguin old-man young men Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge. Paul Gauguin revenge dream life Under the continual contact with the pebbles my feet have become hardened and used to the ground. My body, almost constantly nude, no longer suffers from the sun. Civilization is falling from me little by little. I am beginning to think simply, to feel only very little hatred for my neighbor - rather, to love him. Paul Gauguin civilization fall thinking The cyclone ends. The sun returns; the lofty coconut trees lift up their plumes again; man does likewise. The great anguish is over; joy has returned; the sea smiles like a child. Paul Gauguin sea men children It is better to paint from memory, for thus your work will be your own. Paul Gauguin paint memories Sooner or later people will learn to recognize your worth Paul Gauguin sooner-or-later people If I did what has already been done, I would be a plagiarist and would consider myself unworthy; so I do something different and people call me a scoundrel. I'd rather be a scoundrel than a plagiarist! Paul Gauguin different would-be people 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 evil winning order I am a great artist and I know it, it is because I am that I have been able to endure so much suffering. Paul Gauguin artist suffering healing The great artist is a formulation of the greatest intelligence: he is the recipient of sensations which are the most delicate and consequently the most invisible expressions of the brain. Paul Gauguin artist expression brain And here in my isolation I can grow stronger. Poetry seems to come of itself, without effort, and I need only let myself dream a little while painting to suggest it. Paul Gauguin being-alone creativity dream A meter of green is greener than a centimeter. Paul Gauguin greener meter green Poor artist! You gave away part of your soul when you painted the picture which you are now trying to dispose of. Paul Gauguin artist soul trying 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 copying sun firsts
