180 Quotes by Paul Gauguin

Slyly, banteringly, but also overbearingly, the critic - the one who does not swallow anything whole, who waits until posterity has consecrated it before... howling - is among those who howl their admiration the way they howl their insults: don't be afraid, don't tremble - the beast doesn't have any nails or teeth, or even brain: it is stuffed...

Do not finish your work too much. An impression is not sufficiently durable for its first freshness to survive a belated search for infinite detail; in this way you let the lava grow cool...

A critic is someone who meddles with something that is none of his business.

Why did I hesitate to put all this glory of the sun on my canvas?

The landscape with its violent, pure colours dazzled and blinded me. I was always uncertain...

Sometimes people accuse me of being incomprehensible only because they look for an explicative side to my pictures which is not there.

Soon I'll be old and I've done precious little in this world for lack of time. I am always afraid I'll become senile before I've finished what I've undertaken.

Do you know what will soon be the ultimate in truth?

Night is here. All is at rest. My eyes close in order to see without actually understanding the dream that flees before men infinite space; and I experience the languorous sensation produced by the mournful procession of my hopes.