Paul Gauguin Quotes
I have always wanted a mistress who was fat, and I have never found one. To make a fool of me, they are always pregnant.
Lacking many of the essential implements, it irritated me to be reduced to impotence in the face of artistic projects to which I had passionately given myself.
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?
There are tonalities which are noble and others which are vulgar, harmonies which are calm or consoling, and others which are exciting because of their boldness.
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.
Nail up some indecency in plain sight over your door; from that time forward you will be rid of all respectable people,the most insupportable folk God has created.
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.
A time will come when people will think I am a myth, or rather something the newspapers have made up.
All the joys—animal and human—of a free life are mine. I have escaped everything that is artificial, conventional, customary. I am entering into the truth, into nature.
The self-esteem one acquires and a well-earned feeling of one's strength are the only consolation in this world. Income, after all, most brutes have that.
Is there a recipe for making beauty? The schools give recipes, but they do not beget works that make people exclaim: " How beautiful that is!
...solitude is not to be recommended to everyone, for you have to be strong in order to bear it and act alone.
It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object beware of this stumbling block.