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

Other quotes by 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

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Art
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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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Artist, The
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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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Artist, The
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Crayons & Colors
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Beauty without colour seems somehow to belong to another world. – Murasaki Shikibu

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

Stop counting crayons, just draw pictures. – Mark Scharenbroich

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I love the script and I just thought it was a great role. Like I say, its like this – the script is like this sad, funny, desperate love song to the lost American man. – Oliver Platt

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Let us remember that, as much has been given us, much will be expected from us, and that true homage comes from the heart as well as from the lips, and shows itself in deeds. – Theodore Roosevelt

Men are what their mothers made them. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The wicked work harder to preach hell than the righteous do to get to heaven. – Proverb

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Hypocrisy