Paul Gauguin Quotes

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within.

After all the work I've done, I feel like I'm something of an emotion-smith. We have to tap into places on a daily basis that usually people only go in a rare occasion.

Art is the skin of the soul.

Individuals have to find a place to experience a profundity of feeling, and art is a means to that.

Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed. Having once experienced the mystery, plenitude, contradiction, and composure of a work of art, we afterward have a built-in resistance to the slogans and propaganda of oversimplification that have often contributed to the destruction of human life. Poetry is a verbal means to a nonverbal source. It is a motion to no-motion, to the still point of contemplation and deep realization.

With the true artist, the social formula that he recommends is a matter of secondary importance; the source of his art, its animating spirit, is decisive.

If you love writing or making music or blogging or any sort of performing art, then do it. Do it with everything you've got. Just don't plan on using it as a shortcut to making a living.

A man cannot have the energy to produce good art without having the energy to wish to pass beyond it.

In order to have a real relationship with our creativity, we must take the time and care to cultivate it.

People should practice an art in order to make their souls grow and not to make money or become famous. Paint a picture. Write.

To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.

Life is short, he thought. Art, or something not life, is long, stretching out endless, like [a] concrete worm. Flat, white, unsmoothed by any passage over or across it.

Henry James proposed asking of art three modest and appropriate questions: What is the artist trying to do? Does he do it? Was it worth doing?

Giving style” to one’s character - a great and rare art! It is exercised by those who see all the strengths and weaknesses of their own natures and then comprehend them in an artistic plan until everything appears as art and reason and even weakness delights the eye.

All the great things we know have come to us from neurotics. It is they who have founded religions and created great works of art.

Follow, poet, follow right To the bottom of the night, With your unconstraining voice Still persuade us to rejoice; With the farming of a verse Make a vineyard of the curse, Sing of human unsuccess In a rapture of distress; In the deserts of the heart Let the healing fountain start, In the prison of his days Teach the free man how to praise.

I have no problem with religion, and I grew up with a strong curiosity about spiritual matters, but my searching took me away from church and community worship to the internal journey. Before my recovery began, I found my God in music and the arts, with writers like Hermann Hesse, and musicians like Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, and Little Walter.

All that is good in art is the expression of one soul talking to another, and is precious according to the greatness of the soul that utters it.

Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art.

There's no retirement for an artist,its your way of living so theres no end to it.

Art is not escape, but a way of finding order in chaos, a way of confronting life.

Lord, heap miseries upon us yet entwine our arts with laughters low.

How certain human beings are able to create works of art is a mystery, and why they should wish to do so, at a great cost to themselves usually, is another mystery. Works are not created by one's life; every life is rich in material.