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Quote by Paul Gauguin
But I owe something to Vincent, and that is, in the consciousness

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 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 requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty? – 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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Taste! It doesnt exist. An artist makes beautiful things without being aware of it. – Edgar Degas

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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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For the serious artist does not satisfy needs – Anthony Burgess

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The artist has one function–to affirm and glorify life. – W. Edward Brown

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