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Paul Gauguin

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

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Wherever I go I need a period of incubation so that I may learn the essence of nature, which never wishes to be understood or yield herself.

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What still concerns me the most is: am I on the right track, am I making progress, am I making mistakes in art?

Art, Mistake, Mistakes, Progress, Right, Track

A young man who is unable to commit a folly is already an old man.

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Do not copy nature too much. Art is an abstraction.

Abstraction, Art, Copies, Copy, Nature, Too Much

Art = a mad search for individualism.

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