Paul Gauguin
1848-1903
One of the Greatest Painters Of All Time
French Post-Impressionism Primitivist Painter
Stylistically influenced by the following painters and art movements: Vincent van Gogh, Paul Cezanne, Japanese Woodblock Prints, Assyrian Art, Classical Greek, and Byzantine Style Painting
Cause of Death - Advanced Syphilis
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Paul Gauguin Interesting Facts:
His grandmother was a famous revolutionary.
Gauguin's mother was of Peruvian descent.
He was born Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin.
Gauguin's father died when he was an infant.
Gauguin joined the French merchant navy At the age of 17.
Gauguin was an accountant, before painting full-time.
He married a Danish girl, Mette Sophia Gad.
While in Polynesia Gauguin took several Polynesian "child-brides".
Gauguin was an alcoholic and drug-addict.
Paul Gauguin Quotes
I wanted, before I died, to paint a big picture I had in mind and I have
worked feverishly night and day all month ... It was all dashed off,
directly with the top of a brush, on a piece of sacking full of knots
and rough bits.-- Paul Gauguin Quote
Prepare oneself for eternity. -- Paul Gauguin
Art is either plagiarism or revolution. -- Paul Gauguin
Many excellent cooks are spoilt by going into the arts. -- Paul Gauguin
It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color
to every object; beware of this stumbling block. -- Paul Gauguin
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
Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise,
what would become of beauty? -- Paul Gauguin
But I owe something to Vincent Van Gogh, and that is . . . the confirmation of my own original ideas about painting. And also, at difficult moments, the remembrance that one finds others unhappier than oneself. -- Paul Gauguin
In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are masters. -- Paul Gauguin
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. -- Paul Gauguin Quote
A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone
believes that he has got the biggest piece. -- Paul Gauguin Quote
We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on
ourselves. -- Paul Gauguin Quote
Civilization is what makes you sick. -- Paul Gauguin Quote
Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge. -- Paul Gauguin Quote
I shut my eyes in order to see. -- Paul Gauguin Quote
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