Paul Gauguin

Quotes

1. The critic asks me: 'So you are a Symbolist? I mean well and I would like to learn; why don't you explain Symbolism to me'.. I answer.. .'Well, my paintings probably speak Hebrew, which you do not understand, so there is no point in continuing the conversation.

   p. 130

2. 

   ..so before I died I wanted to paint a large canvas that I had worked out in my head, and all month long I worked [on Tahiti] day and night at fever pitch.. .It's all done without a model.

   p. 159

3. 

   A great sentiment can be rendered immediately. Dream on it and look for the simplest form in which you can express it.

   p. 5

That’s all the quotes.

3 quotes in the collection · come back when we add more