180 Quotes by Paul Gauguin

It is better to paint from memory, for thus your work will be your own...

There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite.

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Out in the sun, some painters are lined up. The first is copying nature, the second is copying the first, the third is copying the second... You see the sequence.

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Sooner or later people will learn to recognize your worth

In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are masters.

Art = a mad search for individualism.

It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.