List of Paul Gauguin Quotes

Explore our hand-picked selection of 135 inspiring quotes by Paul Gauguin.

About Paul Gauguin

  • Born: June 7, 1848
  • Died: May 8, 1903
  • Occupation: Artist
    • Art is either a plagiarist or a revolutionist.
    Art Philosophy History
    Why did i hesitate to put all this glory of the sun on my canvas?
    Courage Sun Canvas
    Lacking many of the essential implements, it irritated me to be reduced to impotence in the face of artistic projects to which i had passionately given myself.
    Essentials Faces Irritated
    Slyly, banteringly, but also overbearingly, the critic - the one who does not swallow anything whole, who waits until posterity has consecrated it before... howling - is among those who howl their admiration the way they howl their insults: don't be afraid, don't tremble - the beast doesn't have any nails or teeth, or even brain: it is stuffed.
    Waiting Brain Way
    If instead of a figure you put the shadow only of a person, you have found an original starting point, that strangeness of which you have calculated.
    Shadow Starting Figures
    I have always wanted a mistress who was fat, and i have never found one. to make a fool of me, they are always pregnant.
    Funny Mistress Fool
    The critics can say stupid things and we can enjoy them, if we have the legitimate feeling of superiority - the satisfaction of a duty accomplished.
    Stupid Feelings Satisfaction
    Oh mysterious world of all light, thou hast made a light shine within me, and i have grown in admiration of thy antique beauty, which is the immemorial youth of nature.
    Light Shining World
    I was aware that on my skill as a painter would depend the physical and moral possession of the model.
    Skills Moral Possession
    Many excellent cooks are spoilt by going into the arts.
    Art Excellent Cooks
    Without delay i began work, without hesitation and all of a fever.
    Fever Delay Hesitation
    But i owe something to vincent, and that is, in the consciousness of having been useful to him, the confirmation of my own original ideas about painting. and also, at difficult moments, the remembrance that one finds others unhappier than oneself.
    Ideas Remembrance Painting
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