Logo
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

Other quotes by Paul Gauguin

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

Category:
Diets and Dieting
Author
Paul Gauguin
Read Quote

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

Category:
Art
Author
Paul Gauguin
Read Quote

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

Category:
Beauty
Author
Paul Gauguin
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Artist, The
category

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

Category:
Artist, The

I could draw Bloom County with my nose and pay my cleaning lady to write it, and Id bet I wouldnt lose 10 % of my papers over the next twenty years. Such is the nature of comic-strips. Once established, their half-life is usually more than nuclear waste. – Berke Breathed

Category:
Artist, The

In order to create, we draw from our inner well. This inner well, an artistic reservoir, is ideally like a well stocked fish pond… If we don – Julia Cameron

Category:
Artist, The

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

Category:
Artist, The

Random Quotes

The only real power comes out of a long rifle. – Joseph Stalin

Category:
power

We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil. – C.A.R. Hoare, quoted by Donald Knuth

Category:
Programming

In the midst of pain and urgent trouble we can not realize the supreme happiness of being loved — sweetest and deepest of all meditations…. – Byron Caldwell Smith, letter to Kate Stephens

Category:
Love

There was no relationship between a wedding dress and fashion. There was no good taste, either. I realized that I could make an impression in terms of changing and readdressing the whole industry of bridal. – Vera Wang

Category:
relationship