180 Quotes by Paul Gauguin

My God! How terrible these money questions are for an artist!

I plunged eagerly and passionately into the wilderness, as if in the hope of thus penetrating into the very heart of this Nature, powerful and maternal, there to blend with her living elements.

Follow the masters! But why should one follow them? The only reason they are masters is that they didn't follow anybody!

Oh mysterious world of all light, thou hast made a light shine within me, and I have grown in admiration of thy antique beauty, which is the immemorial youth of nature.

Look closely at the Japanese; they draw admirably and yet in them you will see life outdoors and in the sun without shadows...

Lacking many of the essential implements, it irritated me to be reduced to impotence in the face of artistic projects to which I had passionately given myself.

If instead of a figure you put the shadow only of a person, you have found an original starting point, that strangeness of which you have calculated.

I am entering into the truth, into nature.

In art there are only two types of people: revolutionaries and plagiarists