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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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“I'd like to write the way I do my paintings, that is, as fantasy takes me, as the moon dictates.”

Way Writing Fantasy Painting Moon Take Me

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“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

“In painting one must search rather for suggestion than for description, as is done in music.”

Done Painting Description Suggestions

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“On an instrument you start from one tone. In painting you start from several.”

Painting Instruments Tone

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“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.”

Mind Wells Looks May Book Dream Painting Slave Listening To Music

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“No one wants my painting because it is different from other people's peculiar, crazy public that demands the greatest possible degree of originality on the painter's part and yet won't accept him unless his work resembles that of the others!”

People Want Different Accepting Crazy Painting Demand Degrees Painter Peculiar Originality

Book:The writings of a savage

Source: The writings of a savage

“Painting is the most beautiful of all arts. In it, all sensations are condensed, at its aspect everyone may create romance at the will of his imagination, and at a glance have his soul invaded by the most profound memories, no efforts of memory, everything summed up in one moment. Complete art which sums up all the others and completes them.”

May Art Soul Moments Beautiful Romance Imagination Memories Effort Painting Aspect Profound Sensations Glances

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“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.”

Needs Littles I Can Dream Seems Grows Effort Creativity Creative Painting Stronger Isolation Introvert Being Alone

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“A critic in my house sees some paintings. Greatly perturbed, he asks for my drawings. My drawings? Never! They are my letters, my secrets.”

Art Asks House Secret Painting Letters Critics Drawing

Book:Gauguin's Intimate Journals

Source: Gauguin's Intimate Journals

“But I owe something to Vincent, and that is, in the consciousness of having been useful to him, the confirmation of my own original ideas about painting. And also, at difficult moments, the remembrance that one finds others unhappier than oneself.”

Ideas Moments Difficult My Own Consciousness Painting Originals Oneself Remembrance Confirmation Original Ideas Difficult Moments

Book:Gauguin's Intimate Journals

Source: Gauguin's Intimate Journals

“The flat sound of my wooden clogs on the cobblestones, deep, hollow and powerful, is the note I seek in my painting.”

Sound Powerful Painting Notes Flats Hollow Cobblestone

Book:The Pursuit of Spiritual Wisdom: The Thought and Art of Vincent Van Gogh and Paul Gauguin

Source: The Pursuit of Spiritual Wisdom: The Thought and Art of Vincent Van Gogh and 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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