Paul Gauguin :
No one wants my painting because it is different from other people's — peculiar, crazy public that demands the greatest possible degree of originality on the painter's part and yet won't accept him unless his work resembles that of the others!
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Arts and Artists
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Politicians and Politics
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Originality
Gift it
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