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Paul Gauguin Quotes: Sometimes people accuse me of being incomprehensible only because they look for an explicative side to my pictures which is not there.
         

Sometimes people accuse me of being incomprehensible only because they look for an explicative side to my pictures which is not there.


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Art is either revolution or plagiarism



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Oh yes! he loved yellow, this good Vincent, this painter from Holland - those glimmers of sunlight rekindled his soul, that abhorred the fog, that needed the warmth.



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Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!



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