Quotes from Paul Gauguin

Whatever may happen the sun will rise tomorrow as it rose to-day, beneficent and serene.

Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge—and has to content oneself with dreaming.

Civilization is what makes you sick.

It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.

The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.

In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary and it is they alone who are masters.

No one is good; no one is evil; everyone is both, in the same way and in different ways. It would be needless to point this out if the unscrupulous were not always saying the opposite. It's so small a thing, the life of man, and yet there is time to do great things, fragments of the common task. I wish to love, and I cannot. I wish not to love, and I cannot.

It takes very little to bring about a woman's fall, but you have to lift the whole world in order to lift her.

To a man who has not succeeded we say 'You made a mistake'. To a man who ha lost at the lottery, 'You had bad luck'.

Be stingy of nothing but the name of friend, and take care not to waste your insults.

Para ver cierro los ojos

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.

D'où venons-nous? Que sommes-nous? Où allons-nous?

U umetnosti, stanje duse u kom se nalazimo cini tri cetvrtine posla; treba ga dakle negovati ako se zeli napraviti nesto veliko i trajno...

Soyez amoureuses vous serez heureuses

I shut my eyes in order to see.

Art is either revolution or plagiarism

Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.

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

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

It is so small a thing, the life of a man, and yet there is time to do great things, fragments of a common task.

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

How do you see this tree? Is it green? ...Don't be afraid to paint it as green as possible.

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.