Quote by Paul Gauguin
It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable c

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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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

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Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty? – Paul Gauguin

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Wherever men are noble, they love bright colour; and wherever they can live healthily, bright colour is given them—in sky, sea, flowers, and living creatures. – John Ruskin (1819–1900), Proserpina: Studies of Wayside Flowers, While the

Certain peer pressures encourage little fingers to learn how to hold a football instead of a crayon. Rumors circulate around the schoolyard: kids who draw or wear white socks and bring violins to school on Wednesdays might have cooties. I confess to having yielded to these pressures. – Chris Van Allsburg

If people want to make war they should make a color war, and paint each others’ cities up in the night in pinks and greens. – Yoko Ono

Artists can color the sky red because they know it’s blue. Those of us who aren’t artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we’re stupid. – Jules Feiffer

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Once it gets to a point where it becomes a matter of life and death to occupy a position of leadership or not, with an eye on future opportunities, therein lies the danger. – Kgalema Motlanthe

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We all need ways to express ourselves, and poetry is one of mine. – Jack Prelutsky

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