Brave as you may be, wise even as you may be, you tremble when the earth trembles. That is a sensation common to everybody and which no one would eve… - Paul Gauguin

You have long known what I have tried to establish: the right to dare everything; yet the difficulty I have had finding enough money to live on has been too great, and my capacities have not produced a very big result but the mechanism has got underway nevertheless. The public does not owe me anything because the pictorial work I have done is only relatively good, but the painters who benefit from that freedom today do owe me something.

D’où Venons Nous / Que Sommes Nous / Où Allons Nous

Don't paint from nature too much. Art is an abstraction. Derive this abstraction from nature while dreaming before it, and think more of the creation that will result.