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1. "I shut my eyes in order to see." ~ Paul Gauguin
2. "Art is either plagiarism or revolution." ~ Paul Gauguin
3. "There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite." ~ Paul Gauguin
4. "It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block." ~ Paul Gauguin
5. "Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them." ~ Paul Gauguin
6. "Thanks to our cinctures and corsets we have succeeded in making an artificial being out of woman. She is an anomaly, and Nature herself, obedient to the laws of heredity, aids us in complicating and enervating her. We carefully keep her in a state of nervous weakness and muscular inferiority, and in guarding her from fatigue, we take away from her possibilities of development. Thus modeled on a bizarre ideal of slenderness to which, strangely enough, we continue to adhere, our women have nothing in common with us, and this, perhaps, may not be without grave moral and social disadvantages." ~ Paul Gauguin
7. "How do you see this tree? Is it green? ...Don't be afraid to paint it as green as possible." ~ Paul Gauguin
8. "In the art of literature there are two contending parties. Those who aim to tell stories that are more or less well thought out, and those who aim at beautiful language, beauty of form. This contest may last a very long time; each side has a fifty-fifty chance. Only the poet can rightfully demand that verse be beautiful and nothing but." ~ Paul Gauguin
9. "Neuznávám žádnou jinou pravdu, krome pravdy umelecké lži." ~ Paul Gauguin
10. "...solitude is not to be recommended to everyone, for you have to be strong in order to bear it and act alone." ~ Paul Gauguin
11. "Color which, like music, is a matter of vibrations, reaches what is most general and therefore most indefinable in nature: its inner power." ~ Paul Gauguin
12. "Art is either revolution or plagiarism" ~ Paul Gauguin
13. "We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves." ~ Paul Gauguin
14. "Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge." ~ Paul Gauguin
15. "Civilization is what makes you sick." ~ Paul Gauguin
16. "Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!" ~ Paul Gauguin
17. "Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses." ~ Paul Gauguin
18. "Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?" ~ Paul Gauguin
19. "The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public." ~ Paul Gauguin
20. "Many excellent cooks are spoilt by going into the arts." ~ Paul Gauguin

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