Paul Gauguin Quotes about Painting

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In painting one must search rather for suggestion than for description, as is done in music.

In painting one must search rather for suggestion than for description, as is done in music.

Paul Gauguin

Suggestions, Done, Painting

On an instrument you start from one tone. In painting you start from several.

Paul Gauguin

Tone, Painting, Instruments

It is well for young men to have a model, but let them draw the curtain over it while they are painting.

Paul Gauguin

Men, Painting, Curtains

Paul Gauguin (2012). “Gauguin's Intimate Journals”, p.27, Courier Corporation

But I owe something to Vincent, and that is, in the consciousness of having been useful to him, 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

Ideas, Remembrance, Painting

Paul Gauguin (1921). “Gauguin's Intimate Journals”, p.10, Courier Corporation

Paul Gauguin Quotes about Painting

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