It takes very little to bring about a woman's fall, but you have to lift the whole world in order to lift her. - Paul Gauguin

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!

Beautiful colors exist, though we do not realize it, and are glimpsed behind the veil that modesty has drawn over them.

..so before I died I wanted to paint a large canvas that I had worked out in my head, and all month long I worked [on Tahiti] day and night at fever pitch.. .It's all done without a model.