Gaugin Quotes & Sayings

The Bible is the only Book in the world that predicts the future. The Bible is more modern than tomorrow morning's newspaper. — Billy Graham

The torch of doubt and chaos, this is what the sage steers by. — Zhuangzi

Art is either plagiarism or revolution. — Paul Gaugin

Whether you create, or you observe an objective piece of creativity, meditation should be the key. Without it, mind can only spread on the canvas its nightmares. Most of the paintings of the great painters like Paul Gaugin or Picasso are almost like vomit. They could not contain their agony and suffering - it was so much they threw it on the canvas to get relief. The real objective art is not a relief; it is not a sickness that you want to get rid of. It is a blissfulness that you want to share. And by sharing, it grows; you have more of it, the more it is shared. — Rajneesh

The real friends of the space voyager are the stars. Their friendly, familiar patterns are constant companions, unchanging, out there. — Jim Lovell

The insatiable need for heartless power and ruthless control is the telltale sign of an uninitiated man - the most irresponsible, incompetent and destructive force on earth. — Michael Leunig

Every year I'm doing different projects, concerts, touring, open-air festivals. — Nina Hagen

To freeze time, to hold on to youth, this business makes no sense.
It's always time that wins in the end. — Robert Doisneau

To tell the truth is useful to those to whom it is spoken, but disadvantageous to those who tell it, because it makes them disliked. — Blaise Pascal

After the great Impressionists, and again after Van Gogh and Gaugin, people said, 'Painting is now played out.' But Bonnard, Maurice Denis, Roussel and Vuillard appeared and gave them the lie. 'We were wrong,' said the croakers, 'but this at any rate is the end.' Yet to refute them, and to prove that there is no end to art, still another generation of painters sprang up. — Ambroise Vollard

List of Artists Who Created Fantasy Worlds to Try and Cure Bouts of Sadness
1. Italo Calvino
2. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
3. Jim Henson and Jorge Luis Borges - Labyrinths
4. The creator of MySpace
5. Richard Brautigan
6. J.K. Rowling
7. The inventor of the children's toy Lite-Brite
8. Ann Sexton
9. David Foster Wallace
10. Gaugin and the Caribbean
11. Charles Schulz
12. Liam Rector — Shane Jones

...you are a writer the moment you start writing, not when you've sold your first book. — Rob Bignell, Editor