The writings of a savage
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Source: Gauguin's Intimate Journals
Source: Gauguin's Intimate Journals
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Source: The writings of a savage
Source: Gauguin's Intimate Journals
Source: The writings of a savage
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“Without delay I began work, without hesitation and all of a fever.”
Source: Noa Noa: The Tahitian Journal
“How to re-light the fire the very ashes of which are scattered?”
Source: Noa Noa: The Tahitian Journal
“The landscape with its violent, pure colours dazzled and blinded me. I was always uncertain.”
Source: The Intimate Journals of Paul Gauguin
“Why did I hesitate to put all this glory of the sun on my canvas?”
Source: Noa Noa: The Tahitian Journal
“A critic is someone who meddles with something that is none of his business.”
Source: The writings of a savage
Source: Noa Noa: The Tahitian Journal
“I'd like to write the way I do my paintings, that is, as fantasy takes me, as the moon dictates.”
Source: Gauguin's Intimate Journals
Source: Noa Noa: The Tahitian Journal
“Whatever may happen the sun will rise tomorrow as it rose to-day, beneficent and serene.”
“Happiness and work rose up together with the sun, radiant like it.”
Source: Noa Noa: Voyage to Tahiti. [Translated from the Original MS. by Jonathan Griffin. Postscript by Jean Lize].
Source: Noa Noa: The Tahitian Journal
Source: The writings of a savage
Source: Noa Noa
Source: The writings of a savage
“It is better to paint from memory, for thus your work will be your own.”
Source: Gauguin's Intimate Journals
Source: Gauguin's Intimate Journals
Source: Noa Noa: The Tahitian Journal
“There is no such thing as exaggerated art. I even believe that there is salvation only in extreme.”
“My God! How terrible these money questions are for an artist!”
Source: Noa Noa
Source: Noa Noa: The Tahitian Journal
“A nude by Degas is chaste. But his women wash in tubs!”
Source: The writings of a savage
Source: Noa Noa: The Tahitian Journal
“In painting one must search rather for suggestion than for description, as is done in music.”
“Having the certitude of a succession of days... equally free and beautiful, peace descends on me.”
Source: Noa Noa: The Tahitian Journal
Source: The writings of a savage
Source: The writings of a savage