Paul Gauguin quotes: "Art = a mad search for individualism"

• "L'arte è un'astrazione: spremetela dalla natura sognando di fronte ad essa e preoccupatevi più della creazione che del risultato".

• "When the physical organism breaks up, the soul survives. It then takes on another body".

• "Painting is the most beautiful of all arts.

In it, all sensations are condensed, at its aspect everyone may create romance at the will of his imagination, and at a glance have his soul invaded by the most profound memories, no efforts of memory, everything summed up in one moment.

Complete art which sums up all the others and completes them.

Like music, it acts on the soul through the intermediary of the senses, the harmonious tones corresponding to the harmonies of sounds, but in painting, a unity is obtained which is not possible in music, where the accords follow one another, and the judgement experiences a continuous fatigue if one wants to reunite the end and the beginning. In the main, the ear is an inferior sense to the eye.

The hearing can only grasp a single sound at one time, whereas the sight takes in everything and at the same time simplifies at its will".

• "Color! What a deep and mysterious language, the language of dreams".

• "Colore! Che linguaggio profondo e misterioso, il linguaggio dei sogni".

• "Let everything about you breathe the calm and peace of the soul".

• "Lascia che ogni cosa in te respiri la calma e la pace dell'anima".

• "Do not copy nature. Art is an abstraction. Rather, bring your art forth by dreaming in front of her and think more of creation".

• "Non copiare la natura. L'arte è un'astrazione. Piuttosto, fai emergere la tua arte sognando di fronte a lei e pensa di più alla creazione".

• "Color which, like music, is a matter of vibrations, reaches what is most general and therefore most indefinable in nature: its inner power".

• "Il colore, che come la musica è una questione di vibrazioni, raggiunge ciò che è più generale e quindi più indefinibile in natura: la sua potenza interiore".