Paul Gauguin
Paul Gauguin
Eugène Henri Paul Gauguinwas a French post-Impressionist artist. Underappreciated until after his death, Gauguin is now recognized for his experimental use of color and synthetist style that were distinctly different from Impressionism. His work was influential to the French avant-garde and many modern artists, such as Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse. Gauguin's art became popular after his death, partially from the efforts of art dealer Ambroise Vollard, who organized exhibitions of his work late in his career, as well as...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionPainter
Date of Birth7 June 1848
CityParis, France
CountryFrance
The landscape with its violent, pure colours dazzled and blinded me. I was always uncertain...
I sit at my door, smoking a cigarette and sipping my absinthe, and I enjoy every day without a care in the world
Do you know what will soon be the ultimate in truth?
There are tonalities which are noble and others which are vulgar, harmonies which are calm or consoling, and others which are exciting because of their boldness.
On an instrument you start from one tone. In painting you start from several.
The public wants to understand and learn in a single day, a single minute, what the artist has spent years learning.
Machines have come, art has fled, and I am far from thinking photography can help us.
There are noble tones, ordinary ones, tranquil harmonies, consoling ones, others which excite by their vigour.
Nail up some indecency in plain sight over your door; from that time forward you will be rid of all respectable people,the most insupportable folk God has created.
It was so simple to paint things as I saw them; to put without special calculation a red close to a blue.
Stay firmly in your path and dare; be wild two hours a day!
Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.
Silence! I am learning to know the silence of a Tahitian night.
Today one can dare anything, and, furthermore, nobody is surprised.