# Quote — Paul Gauguin, The Writings Of A Savage

> I was so bent on putting all my energy in its 'Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going' before dying [suffering from syphilis, Gauguin decided to commit suicide at the end], such painful passion amid terrible circumstances, and such a clear vision without corrections that the hastiness of it disappears and life bursts from it. It does not stink of models, professionalism, and the so-called rules that I have always disregarded.

- Author: [Paul Gauguin](https://www.leafyquotes.com/paul-gauguin.md)
- Book: [The Writings Of A Savage](https://www.leafyquotes.com/paul-gauguin/the-writings-of-a-savage.md)
- Page: 160
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/paul-gauguin/the-writings-of-a-savage/i-was-so-bent

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> At the age of ten, twenty, a hundred, very young, a little older, and very old, an artist is always an artist. Isn't he better at some times, some moments, than at others? Never impeccable, since he is a living, human being?

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> I do not paint by copying nature. Everything I do springs from my wild imagination.

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