Paul Gauguin
10 quotes
“A great sentiment can be rendered immediately. Dream on it and look for the simplest form in which you can express it. p. 5: Letter to Emile Schuffenecker ,”
“Don't copy nature too closely. Art is an abstraction; as you dream amide nature, extrapolate art from it and concentrate on what you will create as a result. pp. 5 & 22: Gauguin is advising a fellow painter, 1885”
“freely and madly; you will make progress.. .Above all, don't sweat over a painting; a great sentiment can be rendered immediately..”
“Gauguin is referring to the painting Breton Calvary: The Green Christ .”
“With this painting , I tried to make everything breathe faith, quiet suffering, religious and primitive style and great nature with its scream. in a letter to Theo van Gogh (1889”
“Quote from a conversation in 1888, Pont”
“How do you see this tree? Is it really green? Use green, then, the most beautiful green on your palette. And that shadow, rather blue? Don't be afraid to paint it as blue as possible. Comment voyez”
“This Cézanne [a 'Still life with Compotier, Fruit and Glass', Cézanne made c. 1879”
“Gauguin accepted membership in the Societe Anonyme Cooperative des Artistes Peintres, Sculpteurs, Graveurs, formed in 1873 by Pissarro, Claude Monet , Pierre”
“My Dear Mr. Pissarro ;”