Paul Gauguin Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

15 most famous Paul Gauguin quotes and sayings (artist). These are the first 10 quotes we have.

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

“I shut my eyes in order to see.”

“Art is either plagiarism or revolution.”

“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.”

“We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves.”

“There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite.”

“Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.”

“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.”