In order to produce something new, you have to return to the original source, to the childhood of mankind. Paul Gauguin More Quotes by Paul Gauguin More Quotes From Paul Gauguin In art one is concerned with the condition of the spirit for three quarters of the time; one must therefore care for oneself if he wishes to make something great and lasting. Paul Gauguin threewishart 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 tryingtwoart It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block. Paul Gauguin blockignoranceart Beautiful colors exist, though we do not realize it, and are glimpsed behind the veil that modesty has drawn over them. Paul Gauguin veilscolorbeautiful All the joys - animal and human - of a free life are mine. I have escaped everything that is artificial, conventional, customary. Paul Gauguin freedomjoyanimal Beware of luxury! Beware of acquiring the taste and need for it, under the pretext of providing for the morrow. Paul Gauguin luxurytasteneeds 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. Paul Gauguin giving-updeterminationmay 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 remembrancepaintingideas It is well for young men to have a model, but let them draw the curtain over it while they are painting. Paul Gauguin curtainspaintingmen In Europe men and women have intercourse because they love each other. In the South Seas they love each other because they have had intercourse. Who is right? Paul Gauguin seaeuropemen I sit at my door, smoking a cigarette and sipping my absinthe, and I enjoy every day without a care in the world Paul Gauguin smokingdoorsworld I must confess that I too am a woman and that I am always prepared to applaud a woman who is more daring than I, and is equal to a man in fighting for freedom of behavior. Paul Gauguin fightingbehaviormen The single most powerful tool for winning a negotiation is the ability to get up and walk away from the table without a deal Paul Gauguin powerfultoolswinning My God! How terrible these money questions are for an artist! Paul Gauguin terriblemoneyartist I made a promise to keep a watch over myself, to remain master of myself, so that I might become a sure observer. Paul Gauguin mightwatchespromise Thanks to our cinctures and corsets we have succeeded in making an artificial being out of woman. She is an anomaly, and Nature herself, obedient to the laws of heredity, aids us in complicating and enervating her. We carefully keep her in a state of nervous weakness and muscular inferiority, and in guarding her from fatigue, we take away from her possibilities of development. Thus modeled on a bizarre ideal of slenderness to which, strangely enough, we continue to adhere, our women have nothing in common with us, and this, perhaps, may not be without grave moral and social disadvantages. Paul Gauguin weaknessanomalieslaw Why work? The gods are there to lavish upon the faithful the good gifts of nature. Paul Gauguin faithfulwork If you see a tree as blue, then make it blue. Paul Gauguin ifsbluetree The flat sound of my wooden clogs on the cobblestones, deep, hollow and powerful, is the note I seek in my painting. Paul Gauguin cobblestonepowerfulsound Nothing so resembles a daub as a masterpiece. Paul Gauguin masterpieceart
