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Quote by Paul Gauguin
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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It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block. – Paul Gauguin

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The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness. – Max Eastman

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Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it creative observation. Creative viewing. – William S. Burroughs

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The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep. – Marc Chagall

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Taste! It doesnt exist. An artist makes beautiful things without being aware of it. – Edgar Degas

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