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Paul Gauguin Art Quotations


I wanted, before I died, to paint a big picture I had in mind and I have worked feverishly night and day all month ... It was all dashed off, directly with the top of a brush, on a piece of sacking full of knots and rough bits.-- Paul Gauguin Quote

Prepare oneself for eternity. -- Paul Gauguin

Art is either plagiarism or revolution. -- Paul Gauguin


Many excellent cooks are spoilt by going into the arts. -- Paul Gauguin


It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block. -- Paul Gauguin


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

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 


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 Quote


A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes that he has got the biggest piece. -- Paul Gauguin Quote


We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves. -- Paul Gauguin Quote


Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge. -- Paul Gauguin Quote

I shut my eyes in order to see. -- Paul Gauguin Quote

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Major Artists Associated with the Post-Impressionist Movement
Paul Cézanne (1839 - 1906) French, 
Paul Gauguin (1848 - 1903 French
Henri Rousseau (1844-1910) 
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864 - 1897) French
Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890)  Dutch
Edouard Vuillard (1868-1940) French




  

Important Charactoristics, Words and Phrases Associated with the Post-Impressionism Movement -   Roger Fry, 1910, France,  Ambroise Vollard, geometric forms, Paris, arbitrary colour, esoteric, Synthetist style,   landscapes, Parisian cafe Culture, 19th-century, Paris, soleil levant,  open composition, impasto, vibrant, effets de soir, natural light, en plein air, Académie des Beaux-Arts, boating, leisure activities, Landscapes, modernization, synthetic pigments, industrialization, Independent Collective, avant-garde, Primitivism, Symbolist, France, French painters, The Académie Suisse, controversial ideas about painting, physics of colour, broader strokes, fleeting impression of colour and light, bright, vibrant, flowers, figures, modern art

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