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Paul Gauguin [1848-1903] French
Rank: 101
Artist (with paintings)
Symbolism, Post-Impressionism


Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin was a French post-Impressionist artist. Underappreciated until after his death, Gauguin is now recognized for his experimental use of color and synthetist style that were distinctly different from Impressionism. 

Art, Beauty, Brainy, Dreams, History, Imagination, Time



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Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty? Art, Beauty
101
Civilization is what makes you sick.
102
There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite.
103
Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity! Time
104
We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves.
105
Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.
106
Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge. Dreams
107
Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.
108
Art is either plagiarism or revolution. Art
109
Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
110
It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block. Imagination
111
The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public. Art, History
112
I shut my eyes in order to see. Brainy
113
Many excellent cooks are spoilt by going into the arts.
114
In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are masters.
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