Paul Gauguin quotes

" Art is either plagiarism or revolution. " # Arts and Artists # Plagiarism # Revolutions and Revolutionaries

" Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge. " # Dreams

" We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves. " # Stupidity

" Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty? " # Philosophers and Philosophy # Arts and Artists # Beauty

" Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity! " # Life and Living # Love # Time and Time Management

" 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. " # Life, Lust For # Life and Living # Evil

" The missionary is no longer a man, a conscience. He is a corpse, in the hands of a confraternity, without family, without love, without any of the sentiments that are dear to us. Emasculated, in a sense, by his vow of chastity, he offers us the distressing spectacle of a man deformed and impotent or engaged in a stupid and useless struggle with the sacred needs of the flesh, a struggle which, seven times out of ten, leads him to sodomy, the gallows, or prison. " # Missionaries # Love # Chastity

" 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. " # Obesity # Fools and Foolishness # Pregnancy

" 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. " # Revolutions and Revolutionaries

" I shut my eyes in order to see. " # Marriage