Paul Gauguin Quotes

Moderation sees itself as beautiful; it is unaware that in the eye of the immoderate it appears black and sober and consequently ugly-looking.

Indeed, there is no such thing as an altogether ugly woman — or altogether beautiful.

Beauty exists where you least expect to find it.

It is easier to be mistaken about the true than the beautiful.

Where one should see only what is beautiful, our public looks only for what is true.

Is beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so?

The line between the reality that is photographed because it seems beautiful to us and the reality that seems beautiful because it has been photographed is very narrow.

I'm surrounded by young and beautiful people. I hate looking at ugliness.

By means of beauty all beautiful things become beautiful.

If true, rarely beautiful. If beautiful, rarely true.

I don't know if all the women in the photographs are beautiful, but I do know that the women are beautiful in the photographs.

There is nothing that is more beautiful than everything else in the world.

I love colorful things. I think the world is so beautiful because of all the different colors. With my feed, I really like it to be a rainbow effect, very colorful and vibrant, and just showing happy moments.

I had seen faces in photographs I might have found beautiful had I known even vaguely in what beauty was supposed to consist. And my father's face, on his death-bolster, had seemed to hint at some form of aesthetics relevant to man. But the faces of the living, all grimace and flush, can they be described as objects?

Women who are either indisputably beautiful, or indisputably ugly, are best flattered upon the score of their understandings.

Nothing is ugly as long as it is alive.

Fashion is what seems beautiful now but looks ugly later; art can be ugly at first but it becomes beautiful later.

People are like birds - from a distance, beautiful: from close up, those sharp beaks, those beady little eyes.

All is as beautiful as we think it.

Suppose someone were to say: 'Imagine this butterfly exactly as it is, but ugly instead of beautiful'?!

I like looking at geniuses and listening to beautiful people.

If a woman's young and pretty, I think you can see her good looks all the better for her being plainly dressed.

Colors are beautiful when they are significant.

Whatever colors you have in your mind, I'll show them to you and you'll see them shine.

Art is the most beautiful deception of all!