No one is good; no one is evil; everyone is both, in the same way and in different ways. It would be needless to point this out if the unscrupulous w… - Paul Gauguin

It is so small a thing, the life of a man, and yet there is time to do great things, fragments of a common task.

No one is good; no one is evil; everyone is both, in the same way and in different ways. …
It is so small a thing, the life of a man, and yet there is time to do great things, fragments of the common task.

Life at Papeete soon became a burden. It was Europe, the Europe which I had thought to shake off — and that under the aggravating circumstances of colonial snobbism, and the imitation, grotesque even to the point of caricature, of our customs, fashions, vices, and absurdities of civilization. Was I to have made this far journey, only to find the very thing which I had fled?

Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.

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.