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| But I owe something to Vincent, and that is, in the consciousness of having been useful to him, the confirmation of my own original ideas about painting. And also, at difficult moments, the remembrance that one finds others unhappier than oneself. |
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| Art is either plagiarism or revolution. |
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| Paul Gauguin |
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| Oh yes! he loved yellow, this good Vincent, this painter from Holland - those glimmers of sunlight rekindled his soul, that abhorred the fog, that needed the warmth. |
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| Paul Gauguin |
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| I wished to suggest by means of a simple nude, a certain long-lost barbaric luxury. |
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| Paul Gauguin |
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| The flat sound of my wooden clogs on the cobblestones, deep, hollow and powerful, is the note I seek in my painting. |
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| Paul Gauguin |
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| In painting one must search rather for suggestion than for description, as is done in music. |
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| Paul Gauguin |
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| We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves. |
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| Paul Gauguin |
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| Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity! |
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