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
In order to produce something new, you have to return to the original source, to the childhood of mankind.
My eyes close and uncomprehendingly see the dream in the infinite space that stretches away, elusive, before me.
You may dream freely when you listen to music as well as when you look at painting. When you read a book you are the slave of the author's mind.
Life is merely a fraction of a second. An infinitely small amount of time to fulfill our desires, our dreams, our passions.
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.
The single most powerful tool for winning a negotiation is the ability to get up and walk away from the table without a deal
Stay firmly in your path and dare; be wild two hours a day!
A great sentiment can be rendered immediately. Dream on it and look for the simplest form in which you can express it.
Beautiful colors exist, though we do not realize it, and are glimpsed behind the veil that modesty has drawn over them.
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.
When the physical organism breaks up, the soul survives. It then takes on another body.
I am a great artist and I know it. It's because I am that I have endured such sufferings.