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The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has inc...

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Is there a recipe for making beauty? The schools give recipes, but they do not beget works that make...

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The Writings of a Savage

The self-esteem one acquires and a well-earned feeling of one's strength are the only consolation in...

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...solitude is not to be recommended to everyone, for you have to be strong in order to bear it and ...

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The Writings of a Savage

All the joys—animal and human—of a free life are mine. I have escaped everything that is artificial,...

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It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object beware of thi...

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Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.

Art is either revolution or plagiarism

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolu...

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

Color which, like music, is a matter of vibrations, reaches what is most general and therefore most ...

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I shut my eyes in order to see.

Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

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Paul Gauguin

Artist

Born: 1848-06-07

Died: 1903-05-08

Paul Gauguin (7 June 1848 – 8 May 1903) was a French Post-Impressionist painter; From 1895 he lived and painted in Papeete on Tahiti.More