Quotes from Paul Gauguin

Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will.

Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.

Life is merely a fraction of a second. An infinitely small amount of time to fulfill our desires, our dreams, our passions.

All the joys - animal and human - of a free life are mine. I have escaped everything that is artificial, conventional, customary.

Look closely at the Japanese; they draw admirably and yet in them you will see life outdoors and in the sun without shadows.

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

In art one is concerned with the condition of the spirit for three quarters of the time; one must therefore care for oneself if he wishes to make something great and lasting.

Soon I'll be old and I've done precious little in this world for lack of time. I am always afraid I'll become senile before I've finished what I've undertaken.

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.

A time will come when people will think I am a myth, or rather something the newspapers have made up.

If you see a tree as blue, then make it blue.

How do you see those tree?... They are yellow. Well then put down yellow. And that shadow is rather blue. So render it with pure ultramarine. Those red leaves? Use vermillion.

Civilization is what makes you sick.

I am entering into the truth, into nature.

Do you know what will soon be the ultimate in truth?

One's state of mind is three-quarters of what counts, so it has to be carefully nurtured if you want to do something great and lasting.

The cyclone ends. The sun returns; the lofty coconut trees lift up their plumes again; man does likewise. The great anguish is over; joy has returned; the sea smiles like a child.

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

It is well for young men to have a model, but let them draw the curtain over it while they are painting.

In Europe men and women have intercourse because they love each other. In the South Seas they love each other because they have had intercourse. Who is right?

We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves.

Do not finish your work too much. An impression is not sufficiently durable for its first freshness to survive a belated search for infinite detail; in this way you let the lava grow cool.