Machines have come, art has fled, and I am far from thinking photography can help us. Paul Gauguin More Quotes by Paul Gauguin More Quotes From Paul Gauguin What still concerns me the most is: am I on the right track, am I making progress, am I making mistakes in art? Paul Gauguin trackmistakeart The landscape with its violent, pure colours dazzled and blinded me. I was always uncertain. Paul Gauguin violentlandscapeconfidence 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 yieldnatureessence Do not copy nature too much. Art is an abstraction. Paul Gauguin copiestoo-muchart 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 mountainperfectionblue 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 minddreambook Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite. Paul Gauguin stresskeysopposites A young man who is unable to commit a folly is already an old man. Paul Gauguin old-manyoungmen Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge. Paul Gauguin revengedreamlife 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 civilizationfallthinking 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 seamenchildren It is better to paint from memory, for thus your work will be your own. Paul Gauguin paintmemories Sooner or later people will learn to recognize your worth Paul Gauguin sooner-or-laterpeople 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 differentwould-bepeople 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 evilwinningorder 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 artistsufferinghealing 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 artistexpressionbrain 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-alonecreativitydream A meter of green is greener than a centimeter. Paul Gauguin greenermetergreen Poor artist! You gave away part of your soul when you painted the picture which you are now trying to dispose of. Paul Gauguin artistsoultrying
