Paul Gauguin
Paul Gauguin
Eugène Henri Paul Gauguinwas a French post-Impressionist artist. Underappreciated until after his death, Gauguin is now recognized for his experimental use of color and synthetist style that were distinctly different from Impressionism. His work was influential to the French avant-garde and many modern artists, such as Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse. Gauguin's art became popular after his death, partially from the efforts of art dealer Ambroise Vollard, who organized exhibitions of his work late in his career, as well as...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionPainter
Date of Birth7 June 1848
CityParis, France
CountryFrance
Paul Gauguin quotes about
A critic in my house sees some paintings. Greatly perturbed, he asks for my drawings. My drawings? Never! They are my letters, my secrets.
Stay firmly in your path and dare; be wild two hours a day!
Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?
In art, there are only two types of people: revolutionaries and plagiarists. And in the end, doesn't the revolutionary's work become official, once the State takes it over?
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.
You may dream freely when you listen to music as well as when you look at painting. When you read a book you are the slave of the author's mind.
A nude by Degas is chaste. But his women wash in tubs!...
I made a promise to keep a watch over myself, to remain master of myself, so that I might become a sure observer.
Many people say that I don't know how to draw because I don't draw particular forms. When will they understand that execution, drawing and color (in other words, style) must be in harmony with the poem?
The work of a man is the explanation of the man.
Having the certitude of a succession of days... equally free and beautiful, peace descends on me.
With practice the craft will come almost of itself, in spite of you and all the more easitly if you think of something besides technique.
The public wants to understand and learn in a single day, a single minute, what the artist has spent years learning.
On an instrument you start from one tone. In painting you start from several.