Paul Gauguin
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Art is an abstraction rather than a close copy of nature. It is the result of the artist dreaming amid nature, extrapolating art from it, and concentrating on what he will create as a result.
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Art is either revolutionary or plagiarism, but in the end, the revolutionary's work become official, once the State takes it over.
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Beauty is of two kinds, one the result of instinct, the other of study. It is with a combination of the two, with the resulting modifications, that a very complicated richness is discovered.
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Color is like music a matter of vibrations which reaches what is most general and therefore most indefinable in nature.
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Color is always changing. Object's should never be assigned fixed and unchangeable colors.
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Color the eye of ignorance assigns in a fixed and unchangeable fashion to every object.
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Failure is the sin-qua-non of youth. A young man who is unable to commit a folly is already an old man.
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Impressionism is a movement that recommends that if you see a tree as blue, then make it blue.
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Impressionism is to paint in such a way that if one sees those trees there as yellow then one ought to put down yellow... and that shadow as rather blue, then it ought to be rendered with pure ultramarine... and those red leaves should be set to canvas with vermillion.
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Life is merely a fraction of a second... an infinitely small amount of time to fulfill our desires, our dreams, our passions.
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Mediocrity is always in demand when it's fresh, for it has been shown that in every generation it is the least cultivated taste that has the largest appetite.
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Vision is not always done at the eyes. Sometimes it is necessary to shut ones eyes in order to see.