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Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin (/ɡoʊˈɡæn/; French: [øʒɛn ɑ̃ʁi pɔl ɡoɡɛ̃]; 7 June 1848 – 8 May 1903) was a French post-Impressionist artist. Unappreciated until after his death, Gauguin is now recognized for his experimental use of color and Synthetist style that were distinctly different from Impressionism. Towards the end of his life he spent ten years in French Polynesia, and most of his paintings from this time depict people or landscapes from that region.

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Nail up some indecency in plain sight over your door; from that time forward you will be rid of all respectable people,the most insupportable folk God has created.

Doors, People, Respectable, Rid, Sight, Time

Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.

Dream, Dreams, Life, Revenge

If I did what has already been done, I would be a plagiarist and would consider myself unworthy; so I do something different and people call me a scoundrel. I'd rather be a scoundrel than a plagiarist!

Different, Done, People, Scoundrel, Would Be

Let everything about you breathe the calm and peace of the soul.

Breathe, Calm, Soul

The work of a man is the explanation of the man.

Explanation, He Man, Man, Men, Work

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.

Artistic, Believe, Littles, Perhaps, Vanity

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.

Consciousness, Difficult, Ideas, Owe, Painting, Remembrance

In art one is concerned with the condition of the spirit for three quarters of the time; one must therefore care for oneself if he wishes to make something great and lasting.

Art, Make, Three, Wish, Wishes

I am a great artist and I know it. It's because I am that I have endured such sufferings.

Artist, Endured, Healing, Know, Suffering, Sufferings

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!

Crazy, Degrees, Demands, People, Public

Color! What a deep and mysterious language, the language of dreams.

Color, Deep, Dream, Language, Mysterious

Seek art and abstraction in nature by dreaming in the presence of it.

Abstraction, Art, Dream, Dreaming, Nature, Presence

Take care not to step on the foot of a learned idiot. His bite is incurable.

Care, Feet, Foot, Step, Steps

Poor artist! You gave away part of your soul when you painted the picture which you are now trying to dispose of.

Artist, Gave, Poor, Soul, Trying

By the combination of lines and colors, under the pretext of some motif taken from nature, I create symphonies and harmonies that represent nothing absolutely real in the ordinary sense of the word but are intended to give rise to thoughts as music does.

Color, Ordinary, Real, Taken, Under

When the physical organism breaks up, the soul survives. It then takes on another body.

Body, Breaks, Physical, Reincarnation, Soul

Slyly, banteringly, but also overbearingly, the critic - the one who does not swallow anything whole, who waits until posterity has consecrated it before. . . howling - is among those who howl their admiration the way they howl their insults: don't be afraid, don't tremble - the beast doesn't have any nails or teeth, or even brain: it is stuffed.

Brain, Howl, Swallow, Teeth, Waiting, Whole

Sooner or later people will learn to recognize your worth

Learn, People, Recognize, Sooner Or Later, Worth

Lacking many of the essential implements, it irritated me to be reduced to impotence in the face of artistic projects to which I had passionately given myself.

Artistic, Essentials, Faces, Impotence, Irritated

Oh mysterious world of all light, thou hast made a light shine within me, and I have grown in admiration of thy antique beauty, which is the immemorial youth of nature.

Grown, Light, Shine, Shining, Thy, World

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