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

Paul Gauguin Quotes

I sit at my door, smoking a cigarette and sipping my absinthe, and I enjoy every day without a care in the world.

— Paul Gauguin

A critic is someone who meddles with something that is none of his business.

— Paul Gauguin

Why did I hesitate to put all this glory of the sun on my canvas?

— Paul Gauguin

Nothing so resembles a daub as a masterpiece.

— Paul Gauguin

Life is merely a fraction of a second. An infinitely small amount of time to fulfill our desires, our dreams, our passions.

— Paul Gauguin

The critics can say stupid things and we can enjoy them, if we have the legitimate feeling of superiority – the satisfaction of a duty accomplished.

— Paul Gauguin

But I owe something to Vincent, and that is, in the consciousness of having been useful to him, the confirmation of my own original ideas about painting. And also, at difficult moments, the remembrance that one finds others unhappier than oneself.

— Paul Gauguin

Silence! I am learning to know the silence of a Tahitian night.

— Paul Gauguin

It was so simple to paint things as I saw them; to put without special calculation a red close to a blue.

— Paul Gauguin

Perhaps I have no talent, but all vanity aside – I do not believe that anyone makes an artistic attempt, no matter how small, without having a little – or there are many fools.

— Paul Gauguin

With practice the craft will come almost of itself, in spite of you and all the more easitly if you think of something besides technique.

— Paul Gauguin

Do you know what will soon be the ultimate in truth? – photography, once it begins to reproduce colors, and that won’t be long in coming. And yet you want an intelligent man to sweat for months so as to give the illusion he can do something as well as an ingenious little machine can!

— Paul Gauguin

In painting one must search rather for suggestion than for description, as is done in music.

— Paul Gauguin

I made a promise to keep a watch over myself, to remain master of myself, so that I might become a sure observer.

— Paul Gauguin

Today one can dare anything, and, furthermore, nobody is surprised.

— Paul Gauguin

I plunged eagerly and passionately into the wilderness, as if in the hope of thus penetrating into the very heart of this Nature, powerful and maternal, there to blend with her living elements.

— Paul Gauguin

I must confess that I too am a woman and that I am always prepared to applaud a woman who is more daring than I, and is equal to a man in fighting for freedom of behavior.

— Paul Gauguin

In order to produce something new, you have to return to the original source, to the childhood of mankind.

— Paul Gauguin

A time will come when people will think I am a myth, or rather something the newspapers have made up.

— Paul Gauguin

Beware of luxury! Beware of acquiring the taste and need for it, under the pretext of providing for the morrow...

— Paul Gauguin
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