180 Quotes by Paul Gauguin

Para ver cierro los ojos

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

The cyclone ends. The sun returns; the lofty coconut trees lift up their plumes again; man does likewise. The great anguish is over; joy has returned; the sea smiles like a child.

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

Oh mysterious world... I have become better for having understood and having loved thy human soul - a flower which has ceased to bloom and whose fragrance no one henceforth will breathe.

Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.

Without delay I began work, without hesitation and all of a fever.

There is no such thing as exaggerated art. I even believe that there is salvation only in extreme.

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