I have always wanted a mistress who was fat, and I have never found one. To make a fool of me, they are always pregnant. – Paul Gauguin
The flat sound of my wooden clogs on the cobblestones, deep, hollow and powerful, is the note I seek in my painting. – Paul Gauguin
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. – Paul Gauguin
Sooner or later people will learn to recognize your worth – Paul Gauguin
The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of arts audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public. – Paul Gauguin
Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge. – Paul Gauguin
Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty? – Paul Gauguin
Art is either plagiarism or revolution. – Paul Gauguin
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. – Paul Gauguin
It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block. – Paul Gauguin
Civilization is what makes you sick. – Paul Gauguin
