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Paul Gauguin Quotes

«I shut my eyes in order to see.»
Author: Paul Gauguin | About: Ability, Art, Artist, Imagination, Inspiration | Keywords: shut
«We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves»
Author: Paul Gauguin | Keywords: experimented, stupidity
«Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.»
«Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.»
Author: Paul Gauguin | About: Dreams, Life
«It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.»
Author: Paul Gauguin | About: Ignorance | Keywords: assigns, Eye of, stumbling, unchangeable
«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.»
«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.»
«The missionary is no longer a man, a conscience. He is a corpse, in the hands of a confraternity, without family, without love, without any of the sentiments that are dear to us. Emasculated, in a sense, by his vow of chastity, he offers us the distressing spectacle of a man deformed and impotent or engaged in a stupid and useless struggle with the sacred needs of the flesh, a struggle which, seven times out of ten, leads him to sodomy, the gallows, or prison.»
«I have always wanted a mistress who was fat, and I have never found one. To make a fool of me, they are always pregnant.»
Author: Paul Gauguin | Keywords: fat, mistress, pregnant
«Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.»

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