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
There is no such thing as exaggerated art. I even believe that there is salvation only in extreme.
It is better to paint from memory, for thus your work will be your own...
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.
Sooner or later people will learn to recognize your worth
Art = a mad search for individualism.
Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.
Wherever I go I need a period of incubation so that I may learn the essence of nature, which never wishes to be understood or yield herself.
Literary poetry in a painter is something special, and is neither illustration nor the translation of writing by form.
Do not copy nature too much. Art is an abstraction.
Seek art and abstraction in nature by dreaming in the presence of it.
The great artist is a formulation of the greatest intelligence: he is the recipient of sensations which are the most delicate and consequently the most invisible expressions of the brain.
I'd like to write the way I do my paintings, that is, as fantasy takes me, as the moon dictates.
A meter of green is greener than a centimeter.
A young man who is unable to commit a folly is already an old man.