Let everything about you breathe the calm and peace of the soul. Paul Gauguin More Quotes by Paul Gauguin More Quotes From Paul Gauguin Perhaps I have no talent, but all vanity aside - I do not believe that anyone makes an artistic attempt, no matter how small, without having a little - or there are many fools. Paul Gauguin vanity littles believe Slyly, banteringly, but also overbearingly, the critic - the one who does not swallow anything whole, who waits until posterity has consecrated it before... howling - is among those who howl their admiration the way they howl their insults: don't be afraid, don't tremble - the beast doesn't have any nails or teeth, or even brain: it is stuffed. Paul Gauguin waiting brain way It was so simple to paint things as I saw them; to put without special calculation a red close to a blue. Paul Gauguin simplicity simple blue 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. Paul Gauguin satisfaction stupid feelings A nude by Degas is chaste. But his women wash in tubs! Paul Gauguin degas chaste tubs Today one can dare anything, and, furthermore, nobody is surprised. Paul Gauguin dare shock today Do you know what will soon be the ultimate in truth? - photography, once it begins to reproduce colors, and that won't be long in coming. And yet you want an intelligent man to sweat for months so as to give the illusion he can do something as well as an ingenious little machine can! Paul Gauguin intelligent photography men 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. Paul Gauguin mistress fool funny 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. Paul Gauguin starting shadow figures A bit of advice, don't copy nature too closely. Art is an abstraction; as you dream amid nature, extrapolate art from it, and concentrate on what you will create as a result. Paul Gauguin dream advice art Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses. Paul Gauguin competitors weakness business Art is either plagiarism or revolution. Paul Gauguin plagiarism revolution art There is no such thing as exaggerated art. I even believe that there is salvation only in extreme. Paul Gauguin moderation believe art How to re-light the fire the very ashes of which are scattered? Paul Gauguin ashes light fire Many excellent cooks are spoilt by going into the arts. Paul Gauguin cooks excellent art Without delay I began work, without hesitation and all of a fever. Paul Gauguin hesitation fever delay I was aware that on my skill as a painter would depend the physical and moral possession of the model. Paul Gauguin moral possession skills Oh mysterious world... I have become better for having understood and having loved thy human soul - a flower which has ceased to bloom and whose fragrance no one henceforth will breathe. Paul Gauguin flower soul world Oh yes! He loved yellow, did good Vincent...When the two of us were together in Arles, both of us insane, and constantly at war over beautiful colors, I adored red; where could I find a perfect vermilion? Paul Gauguin color beautiful war Follow the masters! But why should one follow them? The only reason they are masters is that they didn't follow anybody! Paul Gauguin masters should reason
