English En
  • Deutsche De
  • English En
  • Français Fr
  • Русский Ru

We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our marketing and analytics partners who may combine it with other information you've provided to them or which they've separately collected from you. You also may to see our Privacy Policy. By clicking the OK button below, you accept our cookies.

Authors:
Paul Gauguin Quotes

Paul Gauguin quotes

French Artist June 7, 1848 – May 9, 1903

Paul Gauguin quotes in french
Paul Gauguin quotes in russian
Paul Gauguin quotes in german
 Cite this Page: Citation

  • Quotes Topics

  • art

Quotes

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. Paul Gauguin
Paul Gauguin quote: "Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little..."
Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity! Paul Gauguin
Paul Gauguin quote: "Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge."
Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge. Paul Gauguin
In the art of literature there are two contending parties. Those who aim to tell stories that are more or less well thought out, and those who aim at beautiful language, beauty of form. This contest may last a very long time; each side has a fifty-fifty chance. Only the poet can rightfully demand that verse be beautiful and nothing but. Paul Gauguin
Paul Gauguin quote: "Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art...."
Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty? Paul Gauguin
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... Paul Gauguin
Color which, like music, is a matter of vibrations, reaches what is most general and therefore most indefinable in nature: its inner power. Paul Gauguin
I tried to make everything breathe in this painting: faith, quiet suffering, religious and primitive style, and great nature with its scream. Paul Gauguin
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. Paul Gauguin
Paul Gauguin quote: "It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and..."
It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block. Paul Gauguin
Paul Gauguin quote: "Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative..."
Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses. Paul Gauguin
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. Paul Gauguin
Paul Gauguin quote: "Many excellent cooks are spoilt by going into the arts."
Many excellent cooks are spoilt by going into the arts. Paul Gauguin
Paul Gauguin quote: "Art is either revolution or plagiarism"
Art is either revolution or plagiarism Paul Gauguin
Paul Gauguin quote: "Art is either plagiarism or revolution."
Art is either plagiarism or revolution. Paul Gauguin

Popular Author

Related Authors