“Today one can dare anything, and, furthermore, nobody is surprised.”
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Famous Paul Gauguin Quotes
“Silence! I am learning to know the silence of a Tahitian night.”
Source: Noa Noa: The Tahitian Journal
Source: Noa Noa: The Tahitian Journal
Source: Noa Noa: The Tahitian Journal
Source: The writings of a savage
“On an instrument you start from one tone. In painting you start from several.”
Source: An Exhibition of Paintings, Engravings & Sculpture [by] Gauguin
“I am entering into the truth, into nature.”
Source: Noa Noa: The Tahitian Journal
“The work of a man is the explanation of the man.”
Source: Noa Noa: Gauguin's Tahiti
“Why work? The gods are there to lavish upon the faithful the good gifts of nature.”
Source: Noa Noa: The Tahitian Journal
“We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves.”
Source: Gauguin's Intimate Journals
“Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.”
Source: Gauguin's Intimate Journals
Source: Gauguin's Intimate Journals
Source: Gauguin's Intimate Journals
“Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.”
“In art there are only two types of people: revolutionaries and plagiarists”
Source: The writings of a savage
Source: The writings of a savage
Source: The writings of a savage
Source: The writings of a savage
Source: The writings of a savage
Source: The writings of a savage
Source: The Intimate Journals of Paul Gauguin
Source: The writings of a savage
“Take care not to step on the foot of a learned idiot. His bite is incurable.”
Source: Gauguin's Intimate Journals
“Let everything about you breathe the calm and peace of the soul.”
Source: Gauguin's Intimate Journals
“Machines have come, art has fled, and I am far from thinking photography can help us.”