Nail up some indecency in plain sight over your door; from that time forward you will be rid … - Paul Gauguin

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I carried my Oscar to bed with me. My first and only three-way happened that night.

Paul Gauguin

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

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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.

Already, Man, Men, Old Man, Young

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

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

Art = a mad search for individualism.

Art, Individualism, Mad

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I carried my Oscar to bed with me. My first and only three-way happened that night.

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Most of my cliches aren't original.

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