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Quotes by Paul Gauguin

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes that he has got the biggest piece.
– Paul Gauguin
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
– Paul Gauguin
Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?
– Paul Gauguin
Civilization is what makes you sick.
– Paul Gauguin
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.
– Paul Gauguin
I shut my eyes in order to see.
– Paul Gauguin
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.
– Paul Gauguin
In art, one idea is as good as another. If one takes the idea of trembling, for instance, all of a sudden most art starts to tremble. Michelangelo starts to tremble. El Greco starts to tremble. All the Impressionists start to tremble.
– Paul Gauguin
It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.
– Paul Gauguin
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.
– Paul Gauguin
Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!
– Paul Gauguin
Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.
– Paul Gauguin
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
There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite.
– Paul Gauguin
We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves.
– Paul Gauguin
Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.
– Paul Gauguin