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Paul Gauguin was a French Post-Impressionist painter known for his distinctive use of color and symbolism. His works often depicted the landscapes and people of Tahiti, reflecting his longing for a primitive way of life. Gauguin is a significant figure in art history, profoundly influencing later artists.

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Famous Paul Gauguin Quotes

“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!”

Knows Men Want Giving Wells Littles Long Can Do Color Months Photography Illusion Machines Ultimate Intelligent Do You Know Sweat Ingenious Can Do Something Intelligent Man

Book:The writings of a savage

Source: The writings of a savage

“It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.”

Art Eye Imagination Objects Ignorance Color Block Fixed My Imagination Stumbling Unchangeable Crayon Stumbling Blocks

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“Many people say that I don't know how to draw because I don't draw particular forms. When will they understand that execution, drawing and color (in other words, style) must be in harmony with the poem?”

People Knows Form Know How Style Particular Color Draws Harmony Drawing Execution

Author:Paul Gauguin

“By the combination of lines and colors, under the pretext of some motif taken from nature, I create symphonies and harmonies that represent nothing absolutely real in the ordinary sense of the word but are intended to give rise to thoughts as music does.”

Giving Doe Real Lines Taken Color Ordinary Harmony Combination Symphony Pretext Motifs

Author:Paul Gauguin

“Color which, like music, is a matter of vibrations, reaches what is most general and therefore most indefinable in nature: its inner power.”

Matter Color Music Is Vibrations Indefinable Inner Power

Book:The writings of a savage

Source: The writings of a savage

“Color! What a deep and mysterious language, the language of dreams.”

Dream Language Color Mysterious

Book:The writings of a savage

Source: The writings of a savage

“Beautiful colors exist, though we do not realize it, and are glimpsed behind the veil that modesty has drawn over them.”

Beautiful Realizing Behinds Color Modesty Veils Beautiful Colors

Author:Paul Gauguin

“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?”

Two War Together Beautiful Perfect Color Red Insane Yellow Two Of Us Beautiful Colors

Author:Paul Gauguin

About the Author

Born: June 7, 1848
Died: May 8, 1903
Known for: Artist
Quotes: 144

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The writings of a savageRelated source material

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Noa Noa: The Tahitian JournalRelated source material

The Intimate Journals of Paul GauguinRelated source material

An Exhibition of Paintings, Engravings & Sculpture [by] GauguinRelated source material

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Gauguin: a retrospectiveRelated source material

Letters to His Wife and FriendsRelated source material

Noa Noa: Gauguin's TahitiRelated source material

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