The public wants to understand and learn in a single day, a single minute, what the artist has … - Paul Gauguin

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If you're a progressive, you've got to be worried about how the federal government is spending its revenue, because we don't have enough money to spend on things like early childhood education that are so important.

Paul Gauguin

The public wants to understand and learn in a single day, a single minute, what the artist has spent years learning.

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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?

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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.

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Art = a mad search for individualism.

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