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Gauguin

1848 - 1903 (55)

Gauguin
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Quote 1

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.

Quote 2

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

Quote 3

The self-esteem one acquires and a well-earned feeling of one's strength are the only consolation in this world. Income, after all, most brutes have that.

Quote 4

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

Quote 5

I shut my eyes in order to see.

Quote 6

Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.

Quote 7

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

Quote 8

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.

Quote 9

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Quote 10

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

Quote 11

Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.