180 Quotes by Paul Gauguin

I shut my eyes in order to see.

Art is either revolution or plagiarism

I want only silence, silence and again silence. Let me die quite and forgotten, or if I must live, let me live more quite, and forgotten still...

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

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

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

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.

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