Paul Gauguin
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.Collection: Art
Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.Collection: Dreams
Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?Collection: Art
The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.Collection: Art
I shut my eyes in order to see.Collection: Brainy
In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are masters.Collection: Alone
It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.Collection: Imagination
Many excellent cooks are spoilt by going into the arts.
Civilization is what makes you sick.
Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.
Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.
There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite.
Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!
We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves.
Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
Color! What a deep and mysterious language, the language of dreams.Collection: Dream
Let everything about you breathe the calm and peace of the soul.Collection: Soul
Do not copy nature. Art is an abstraction. Rather, bring your art forth by dreaming in front of her and think more of creation.Collection: Dream
If you see a tree as blue, then make it blue.Collection: Blue
Follow the masters! But why should one follow them? The only reason they are masters is that they didn't follow anybody!Collection: Reason
Life is merely a fraction of a second. An infinitely small amount of time to fulfill our desires, our dreams, our passions.Collection: Dream
Stay firmly in your path and dare; be wild two hours a day!Collection: Teaching
I have come to an unalterable decision - to go and live forever in Polynesia. Then I can end my days in peace and freedom, without thoughts of tomorrow and this eternal struggle against idiots.Collection: Struggle
Color which, like music, is a matter of vibrations, reaches what is most general and therefore most indefinable in nature: its inner power.Collection: Color
Art is either revolution or plagiarismCollection: Art
Happiness and work rose up together with the sun, radiant like it.Collection: Happiness
I am leaving in order to have peace and quiet. To be rid of the influence of civilization. I only want to do simple, very simple art and to be able to do that, I have to immerse myself in virgin nature, see no one but savages, live their life, with no other thought in my mind but to render, the way a child would, the concepts formed in my brain and to do this with the aid of nothing but the primitive means of art, the only means that are good and true.Collection: Art
It is better to paint from memory, for thus your work will be your own.Collection: Memories
Seek art and abstraction in nature by dreaming in the presence of it.Collection: Dream
Art = a mad search for individualism.Collection: Art
The great artist is a formulation of the greatest intelligence: he is the recipient of sensations which are the most delicate and consequently the most invisible expressions of the brain.Collection: Artist
Take care not to step on the foot of a learned idiot. His bite is incurable.Collection: Feet
Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will.Collection: Meaning Of Life
Whatever may happen the sun will rise tomorrow as it rose to-day, beneficent and serene.Collection: Future
My eyes close and uncomprehendingly see the dream in the infinite space that stretches away, elusive, before me.Collection: Dream
There are two sorts of beauty; one is the result of instinct, the other of study. A combination of the two, with the resulting modifications, brings with it a very complicated richness, which the art critic ought to try to discover.Collection: Art
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.Collection: Fighting
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?Collection: Art
It is useless to advise solitude for everyone; one must be strong enough to endure it and to work alone.Collection: Strong
One's state of mind is three-quarters of what counts, so it has to be carefully nurtured if you want to do something great and lasting.Collection: Insightful
Painting is the most beautiful of all arts. In it, all sensations are condensed, at its aspect everyone may create romance at the will of his imagination, and at a glance have his soul invaded by the most profound memories, no efforts of memory, everything summed up in one moment. Complete art which sums up all the others and completes them.Collection: Beautiful
I am a great artist and I know it. It's because of what I am that I have endured so much suffering, so as to pursue my vocation, otherwise I would consider myself a rogue - which is what many people think I am, for that matter.Collection: Thinking
Wherever I go I need a period of incubation so that I may learn the essence of nature, which never wishes to be understood or yield herself.Collection: Nature
Under the continual contact with the pebbles my feet have become hardened and used to the ground. My body, almost constantly nude, no longer suffers from the sun. Civilization is falling from me little by little. I am beginning to think simply, to feel only very little hatred for my neighbor - rather, to love him.Collection: Fall
A critic is someone who meddles with something that is none of his business.Collection: Critics
A young man who is unable to commit a folly is already an old man.Collection: Men
Today one can dare anything, and, furthermore, nobody is surprised.Collection: Today
How to re-light the fire the very ashes of which are scattered?Collection: Fire
What still concerns me the most is: am I on the right track, am I making progress, am I making mistakes in art?Collection: Art
Thanks to our cinctures and corsets we have succeeded in making an artificial being out of woman. She is an anomaly, and Nature herself, obedient to the laws of heredity, aids us in complicating and enervating her. We carefully keep her in a state of nervous weakness and muscular inferiority, and in guarding her from fatigue, we take away from her possibilities of development. Thus modeled on a bizarre ideal of slenderness to which, strangely enough, we continue to adhere, our women have nothing in common with us, and this, perhaps, may not be without grave moral and social disadvantages.Collection: Law