Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge — and has to content oneself with dreaming. - Paul Gauguin

Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.

No one wants my painting because it is different from other people's — peculiar, crazy public that demands the greatest possible degree of originality on the painter's part and yet won't accept him unless his work resembles that of the others!

We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves.

[In] painting...all sensations are condensed, everyone...with a single glance [has] his soul invaded by the most profound recollections...everything is summed up in one instant. Like music, it acts on the soul through the intermediary of the senses: harmonious colors correspond to the harmonies of sound.