Paul Gauguin Quotations

Do you know what will soon be the ultimate in truth? - photography, once it begins to reproduce colors, and that won't be long in coming. And yet you want an intelligent man to sweat for months so as to give the illusion he can do something as well as an ingenious little machine can!

Civilization is paralysis.

No one wants my painting because it is different from other people's peculiar, crazy public that demands the greatest possible degree of originality on the painter's part and yet won't accept him unless his work resembles that of the others!

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

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.

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

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

Beware of luxury! Beware of acquiring the taste and need for it, under the pretext of providing for the morrow...

Perhaps I have no talent, but all vanity aside - I do not believe that anyone makes an artistic attempt, no matter how small, without having a little - or there are many fools.