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Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.
Paul Gauguin
Dreams
Life
Being
Revenge
Civilization is what makes you sick.
Paul Gauguin
Civilization
Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?
Paul Gauguin
Art
Beauty
Philosophy
I shut my eyes in order to see.
Paul Gauguin
Eyes
Order
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
Art
It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.
Paul Gauguin
Eye
Ignorance
Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!
Paul Gauguin
Life
Time
Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.
Paul Gauguin
Key
Productivity
Result
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
Art
History
Artist
Concern
Loss
Public
There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite.
Paul Gauguin
Appetite
Mediocrity
Taste
We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves.
Paul Gauguin
Stupidity
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
Paul Gauguin
Art
Revolution
Plagiarism
Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
Paul Gauguin
Life
Virtue
Evil
Meaning
Nothing
Order
Will
Words