180 Quotes by Paul Gauguin

A time will come when people will think I am a myth, or rather something the newspapers have made up.

Let everything about you breathe the calm and peace of the soul.

In order to produce something new, you have to return to the original source, to the childhood of mankind.

I must confess that I too am a woman and that I am always prepared to applaud a woman who is more daring than I, and is equal to a man in fighting for freedom of behavior.

And here in my isolation I can grow stronger. Poetry seems to come of itself, without effort, and I need only let myself dream a little while painting to suggest it.

Today one can dare anything, and, furthermore, nobody is surprised.

Take care not to step on the foot of a learned idiot. His bite is incurable.

It was so simple to paint things as I saw them; to put without special calculation a red close to a blue.

What still concerns me the most is: am I on the right track, am I making progress, am I making mistakes in art?