Gauguin, Paul (Paul Gauguin)

Art is either a plagiarist or a revolutionist.
-- Paul Gauguin

I shut my eyes in order to see.
-- Paul Gauguin

Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.
-- Paul Gauguin

I shut my eyes in order to see.
-- Paul Gauguin

Nature has mysterious infinities and imaginative power. It is always varying the productions it offers to us. The artist himself is one of nature's means.
-- Paul Gauguin

A young man who is unable to commit a folly is already an old man.
-- Paul Gauguin

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 Gauguin

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 Gauguin

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 Gauguin

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!

-- Paul Gauguin