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
Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.
The flat sound of my wooden clogs on the cobblestones, deep, hollow and powerful, is the note I seek in my painting.
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.
Silence! I am learning to know the silence of a Tahitian night.
Today one can dare anything, and, furthermore, nobody is surprised.
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.
Do you know what will soon be the ultimate in truth? - photography, once it begins to reproduce colors, and that won't be long in coming. And yet you want an intelligent man to sweat for months so as to give the illusion he can do something as well as an ingenious little machine can!
Having the certitude of a succession of days... equally free and beautiful, peace descends on me.
I made a promise to keep a watch over myself, to remain master of myself, so that I might become a sure observer.
A nude by Degas is chaste. But his women wash in tubs!...
I plunged eagerly and passionately into the wilderness, as if in the hope of thus penetrating into the very heart of this Nature, powerful and maternal, there to blend with her living elements.
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.
My God! How terrible these money questions are for an artist!
Night is here. All is at rest. My eyes close in order to see without actually understanding the dream that flees before men infinite space; and I experience the languorous sensation produced by the mournful procession of my hopes.