Paul Gauguin Artist Quotations

I am a great artist and I know it. It's because I am that I have endured such sufferings.

The public wants to understand and learn in a single day, a single minute, what the artist has spent years learning.

My God! How terrible these money questions are for an artist!

Nature has mysterious infinities and imaginative power. It is always varying the productions it offers to us. The artist himself is one of nature's means.

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.

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

I am a great artist and I know it. It's because of what I am that I have endured so much suffering, so as to pursue my vocation, otherwise I would consider myself a rogue - which is what many people think I am, for that matter.