“It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.”
Paul Gauguin
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“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.”
Paul Gauguin
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“Painting is the most beautiful of all arts. In it, all sensations are condensed; contemplating it, everyone can create a story atthe will of his imagination and–with a single glance–have his soul invaded by the most profound recollections; no effort of memory, everything is summed up in one instant. A complete art which sums up all the others and completes them. Like music, it acts on the soul through the intermediary of the senses: harmonious colors correspond to the harmonies of sound. But in painting a unity is obtained which is not possible in music, where the accords follow one another, so that the judgment experiences a continuous fatigue if it wants to reunite the end with the beginning. The ear is actually a sense inferior to the eye. The hearing can only grasp a single sound at a time, whereas the sight takes in everything and simultaneously simplifies it at will.”
Paul Gauguin
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“We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves.”
Paul Gauguin
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“Art is either plagiarism or revolution.”
Paul Gauguin
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“Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?”
Paul Gauguin
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“Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!”
Paul Gauguin
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