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The writings of a savage

The life of Paul Gauguin (1848–1903), who abandoned his wife, five children, and a successful career as a stockbroker to paint in poverty in exotic Tahiti, is one of the legendary tales of the art world. Today he is recognized as a highly influential

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Beautiful colors exist, though we do not realize it, and are glimpsed behind the veil that modesty has drawn over them.

— Paul Gaugin, amazon.com

Color beauty Appreciation Ignorance

It is so small a thing, the life of a man, and yet there is time to do great things, fragments of a common task.

— Paul Gaugin, amazon.com

Life Man Time Achievements

I do not paint by copying nature. Everything I do springs from my wild imagination.

— Paul Gaugin, amazon.com

Painting Art Originality Making Art Artistic Expression

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

— Paul Gaugin, amazon.com

Solitude Alone Silence strength Courage

Freely and madly; you will make progress... Above all, don't sweat over a painting; a great sentiment can be rendered immediately... Don't copy nature too closely. Art is an abstraction; as you dream amide nature, extrapolate art from it and concentrate on what you will create as a result.

— Paul Gaugin, amazon.com

Free Progress Painting Art Abstract

My eyes close and uncomprehendingly see the dream in the infinite space that stretches away, elusive, before me.

— Paul Gaugin, amazon.com

Dream Vision Eyes Infinity Space

In order to produce something new, you have to return to the original source, to the childhood of mankind.

— Paul Gaugin, amazon.com

Creativity Source Art Making Art

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 Gaugin, amazon.com

Nature copying Originality

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 Gaugin, amazon.com

Art Plagiarism Revolutionary

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

— Paul Gaugin, amazon.com

Youth Age old age Folly

I am leaving in order to have peace and quiet, to be rid of the influence of civilization. I want only 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 mind but to render, the way a…

— Paul Gaugin, amazon.com

Peace influence Art Making Art Creativity

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 Gaugin, amazon.com

Nature Mystery Infinities Imagination Art

A great sentiment can be rendered immediately. Dream on it and look for the simplest form in which you can express it.

— Paul Gaugin, amazon.com

Sentinment Dream On Form expression 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.

— Paul Gauguin, amazon.com

Confession Woman Freedom Equality

Sooner or later people will learn to recognize your worth.

— Paul Gauguin, amazon.com

Worth realization Recognition Appreciation Acknowledgement

Color! What a deep and mysterious language, the language of dreams.

— Paul Gauguin, amazon.com

Color Art Language

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