Paul Gauguin Quotes

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Paul Gauguin

I shut my eyes in order to see.

Paul Gauguin

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

Paul Gauguin

Is there a recipe for making beauty? The schools give recipes, but they do not beget works that make people exclaim: " How beautiful that is!

Paul Gauguin

The self-esteem one acquires and a well-earned feeling of one's strength are the only consolation in this world. Income, after all, most brutes have that.

Paul Gauguin

All the joys—animal and human—of a free life are mine. I have escaped everything that is artificial, conventional, customary. I am entering into the truth, into nature.

Paul Gauguin

Color which, like music, is a matter of vibrations, reaches what is most general and therefore most indefinable in nature: its inner power.

Paul Gauguin

Art is either revolution or plagiarism

Paul Gauguin

Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?

Paul Gauguin

I shut my eyes in order to see.

Paul Gauguin