Paul Gauguin Quotes


"Art is either plagiarism or revolution."
- Paul Gauguin
(Related: Art, Revolution, Plagiarism)

"We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves."
- Paul Gauguin
(Related: Stupidity)

"There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite."
- Paul Gauguin
(Related: Appetite, Mediocrity, Taste)

"The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public."
- Paul Gauguin
(Related: Art, History, Artist, Concern, Loss, Public)

"Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite."
- Paul Gauguin
(Related: Key, Productivity, Result)

"Many excellent cooks are spoilt by going into the arts."
- Paul Gauguin
"Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!"
- Paul Gauguin
(Related: Life, Time)

"It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block."
- Paul Gauguin
(Related: Eye, Ignorance)

"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
(Related: Art)

"I shut my eyes in order to see."
- Paul Gauguin
(Related: Eyes, Order)

"Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses."
- Paul Gauguin
"Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?"
- Paul Gauguin
(Related: Art, Beauty, Philosophy)

"Civilization is what makes you sick."
- Paul Gauguin
(Related: Civilization)

"Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge."
- Paul Gauguin
(Related: Dreams, Life, Being, Revenge)