180 Quotes by Paul Gauguin

The work of a man is the explanation of the man.

Having the certitude of a succession of days... equally free and beautiful, peace descends on me.

With practice the craft will come almost of itself, in spite of you and all the more easitly if you think of something besides technique.

The public wants to understand and learn in a single day, a single minute, what the artist has spent years learning.

On an instrument you start from one tone. In painting you start from several.

There are tonalities which are noble and others which are vulgar, harmonies which are calm or consoling, and others which are exciting because of their boldness.

Why work? The gods are there to lavish upon the faithful the good gifts of nature.

There are noble tones, ordinary ones, tranquil harmonies, consoling ones, others which excite by their vigour.

In painting one must search rather for suggestion than for description, as is done in music.