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“My God! How terrible these money questions are for an artist!”

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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. more

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“If instead of a figure you put the shadow only of a person, you have found an original starting point, that strangeness of which you have calculated.”

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“Oh mysterious world... I have become better for having understood and having loved thy human soul - a flower which has ceased to bloom and whose fragrance no one henceforth will breathe.”

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Book:Noa Noa

Source: Noa Noa

“I plunged eagerly and passionately into the wilderness, as if in the hope of thus penetrating into the very heart of this Nature, powerful and maternal, there to blend with her living elements.”

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Book:Noa Noa: The Tahitian Journal

Source: Noa Noa: The Tahitian Journal

“Wherever I go I need a period of incubation so that I may learn the essence of nature, which never wishes to be understood or yield herself.”

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Author:Paul Gauguin

“A nude by Degas is chaste. But his women wash in tubs!”

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Book:The writings of a savage

Source: The writings of a savage

“I made a promise to keep a watch over myself, to remain master of myself, so that I might become a sure observer.”

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Book:Noa Noa: The Tahitian Journal

Source: Noa Noa: The Tahitian Journal

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

Done Painting Description Suggestions

Author:Paul Gauguin

“Having the certitude of a succession of days... equally free and beautiful, peace descends on me.”

Beautiful Peace Succession Certitude

Book:Noa Noa: The Tahitian Journal

Source: Noa Noa: The Tahitian Journal

“for Christ's sake, were the mountains blue, then chuck on some blue and don't go telling me that it was a blue a bit like this or like that, it was blue wasn't it? Good - make them blue and that's enough!”

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Author:Paul Gauguin

“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!”

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Book:The writings of a savage

Source: The writings of a savage