180 Quotes by Paul Gauguin

I'd like to write the way I do my paintings, that is, as fantasy takes me, as the moon dictates.

In marriage, the greater cuckold of the two is the lover

A meter of green is greener than a centimeter.

Do you know what will soon be the ultimate in truth? - photography, once it begins to reproduce colors, and that won't be long in coming. And yet you want an intelligent man to sweat for months so as to give the illusion he can do something as well as an ingenious little machine can!

A young man who is unable to commit a folly is already an old man.

Civilization is paralysis.

Poor artist! You gave away part of your soul when you painted the picture which you are now trying to dispose of.

No one wants my painting because it is different from other people's peculiar, crazy public that demands the greatest possible degree of originality on the painter's part and yet won't accept him unless his work resembles that of the others!

Go on working, freely and furiously, and you will make progress.