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Paul Gaugin Quotes

Total quotes: 12
“Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?”
— Paul Gaugin, Title of his large painting
Tagged: Philosophical, Thoughts, realizations
“How do you see this tree? Is it really green? Use green, then, the most beautiful green on your palette. And that shadow, rather blue? Don't be afraid to paint it as blue as possible.”
— Paul Gaugin
Tagged: Tree, Painting, Colors
“With this painting, I tried to make everything breathe faith, quiet suffering, religious and primitive style and great nature with its scream.”
— Paul Gaugin, Letter to Theo van Gogh
Tagged: Painting, Faith, Religous, style
“In order to produce something new, you have to return to the original source, to the childhood of mankind.”
— Paul Gaugin, The writings of a savage
Tagged: Creativity, Source, Art, Making Art
“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?”
— Paul Gaugin, Letter to Charles Morice
Tagged: drawing, Form, expression, execution, harmony, poem, Art
“Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge — and has to content oneself with dreaming.”
— Paul Gaugin, Paul Gauguin's Intimate Journals
Tagged: Life, Dreaming, Contentment, Being
“Copying nature — what is that supposed to mean? Follow the masters! But why should one follow them? The only reason they are masters is that they didn't follow anybody!”
— Paul Gaugin, The writings of a savage
Tagged: Nature, copying, Originality
“..solitude is not to be recommended to everyone, for you have to be strong in order to bear it and act alone.”
— Paul Gaugin, The writings of a savage
Tagged: Solitude, Alone, Silence, strength, Courage
“In art, there are only two types of people: revolutionaries and plagiarists. And in the end, doesn't the revolutionary's work become official, once the State takes it over?”
— Paul Gaugin, The writings of a savage
Tagged: Art, Plagiarism, Revolutionary
“My eyes close and uncomprehendingly see the dream in the infinite space that stretches away, elusive, before me.”
— Paul Gaugin, The writings of a savage
Tagged: Dream, Vision, Eyes, Infinity, Space
“This Cézanne, that you ask me for is a pearl of exceptional quality and I already have refused three hundred francs for it; it is one of my most treasured possessions, and except in absolute necessity, I would give up my last shirt before the picture.”
— Paul Gaugin
Tagged: Art, Possesions, Price, Quality
“A young man who is unable to commit a folly is already an old man.”
— Paul Gaugin, The writings of a savage
Tagged: Youth, Age, old age, Folly
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