Creative Quotations from Paul Gauguin (1848-1903)

Creative Quotations from . . .

Paul Gauguin
(1848-1903) born on Jun 07

French painter. "He was a post-impressionist Romantic painter noted for massive simplified themes, impassive figures and exotic backgrounds."

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I shut my eyes in order to see.

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

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

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

"But I owe something to Vincent [Van Gogh], and that is . . . the confirmation of my own original ideas about painting. And also, at difficult moments, the remembrance that one finds others unhappier than oneself."

Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F:	"In "Quotable Business," ed. Louis E. Boone, 1992."
R:	""Intimate Journals," translated by Van Wyck Brooks, 1923."
A:	"In "Pathos of Distance," by Hunker."
N:	""Intimate Journals," translated by Van Wyck Brooks, 1923."
K:	""Intimate Journals," translated by Van Wyck Brooks, 1923."