Quotes by : Paul Gauguin

I shut my eyes in order to see.

All the joys—animal and human—of a free life are mine. I have escaped everything that is artificial,....

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

The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly....

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

...solitude is not to be recommended to everyone, for you have to be strong in order to bear it and act....

Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?

It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object beware of this....

In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary;....

Is there a recipe for making beauty? The schools give recipes, but they do not beget works that make....