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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

“It is well for young men to have a model, but let them draw the curtain over it while they are painting.”

Men Wells Young Painting Models Draws Young Man Over It Curtains

Book:Gauguin's Intimate Journals

Source: Gauguin's Intimate Journals

“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

“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.”

Men Children Doe Ends Joy Sun Tree Sea Return Lifts Anguish Renewal Lofty Coconuts Cyclones

Author:Paul Gauguin

“The work of a man is the explanation of the man.”

Men Work He Man Explanation

Book:Noa Noa: Gauguin's Tahiti

Source: Noa Noa: Gauguin's Tahiti

“I must confess that I too am a woman and that I am always prepared to applaud a woman who is more daring than I, and is equal to a man in fighting for freedom of behavior.”

Men Fighting Equal Behavior Prepared Daring Fighting For Freedom

Book:The writings of a savage

Source: The writings of a savage

“In Europe men and women have intercourse because they love each other. In the South Seas they love each other because they have had intercourse. Who is right?”

Men Sea Men And Women Europe South Intercourse Love Each Other

Author:Paul Gauguin

“A young man who is unable to commit a folly is already an old man.”

Men Young Commit Young Man Folly Old Man

Book:The writings of a savage

Source: The writings of a savage

“Night is here. All is at rest. My eyes close in order to see without actually understanding the dream that flees before men infinite space; and I experience the languorous sensation produced by the mournful procession of my hopes.”

Men Dream Eye Night Order Understanding Space Infinite Sensations Procession Infinite Space

Author:Paul Gauguin

“The missionary is no longer a man, a conscience. He is a corpse, in the hands of a confraternity, without family, without love, without any of the sentiments that are dear to us. Emasculated, in a sense, by his vow of chastity, he offers us the distressing spectacle of a man deformed and impotent or engaged in a stupid and useless struggle with the sacred needs of the flesh, a struggle which, seven times out of ten, leads him to sodomy, the gallows, or prison.”

Source: The Intimate Journals of Paul Gauguin

About the Author

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

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Gauguin: a retrospectiveRelated source material

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