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The flat sound of my wooden clogs on the cobblestones, deep, hollo

The flat sound of my wooden clogs on the cobblestones, deep, hollow and powerful, is the note I seek in my painting. – Paul Gauguin

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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

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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. – Paul Gauguin

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The artist, a traveller on this earth, leaves behind imperishable traces of his being. – Francois Delsarte

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The role of the artist I now understood as that of revealing through the world-surfaces the implicit forms of the soul, and the great agent to assist the artist was the myth. – Joseph Campbell

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For the serious artist does not satisfy needs – Anthony Burgess

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In a certain sense every creative person is a reformer, but this does not mean that he must be in his work a propagandist for good roads, shorter hours, and a low tariff. All these are excellent things, but they need not be the concern of the artist. – Heywood Broun

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