Paul Gauguin citáty
Paul Gauguin
Datum narození: 7. červen 1848
Datum úmrtí: 9. květen 1903
Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin [gogen] byl francouzský malíř, vůdčí osobnost postimpresionismu.
Citáty Paul Gauguin
Odilonu Redonovi
Zdroj: [Zahradníčková, Hana, Gaugin, Paul: Před a po. Malíř v Tichomoří, iLiteratura.cz, recenze, 2002-04-30, 2019-08-03, http://www.iliteratura.cz/Clanek/13221/gaugin-paul-pred-a-po-malir-v-tichomori, česky]
„Ošklivost může být krásná, ale co je hezké - nikdy.“
Varianta: Ošklivé může být krásné, ale hezké nikdy.
Zdroj: [Bernhard, Moestl, 231, Šaolin: nemusíš bojovat, abys zvítězil: silou myšlení ke klidu, vnitřní čistotě a síle, Shaolin, Vladimír Čadský, odpovědný redaktor: Milan Soška, 1, Praha, Beta, 2010, 78-80-7306-429-7, Úvod, 13, česky]
Zdroj: [Sedlák, Jan, Paul Gauguin, Odeon, Praha, 1978, 2, 83, Malá galerie, 19, 31, česky]
Quoted by Bengt Danielsson in Gauguin in the South Seas http://books.google.com/books?id=u41CAAAAIAAJ&q=%22In+Europe+men+and+women+have+intercourse+because+they+love+each+other+In+the+South+Seas+they+love+each+other+because+they+have+had+intercourse+Who+is+right%22&pg=PA137#v=onepage (1966)
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Quote of Paul Gauguin, in Avant et après (1903)
1890s - 1910s
Zdroj: 1890s - 1910s, The Writings of a Savage (1996), p. 219: quote from 1903
„Art is either revolution or plagiarism“
Varianta: Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
„Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge — and has to content oneself with dreaming.“
Quote in Avant et Après, (1903); taken from Paul Gauguin's Intimate Journals, trans. (1923) Van Wyck Brooks [Dover, 1997, ISBN 0-486-29441-2], p. 2
1890s - 1910s
Quote c. 1902, in Racontars d'un Rapin, Paul Gauguin; as quoted in 'Introduction' of Camille Pissarro - Letters to His Son Lucien, ed. John Rewald, with assistance of Lucien Pissarro – (translated from the unpublished French letters by Lionel Abel); Pantheon Books Inc. New York, second edition, 1943, p. 15
After Paul Cezanne it was Gauguin who came to ask advice and painted landscape at the side of the much elder Pissarro. The traces of this apprenticeship as an impressionist were soon to disappear from Gauguin's works, but shortly before he died, he wrote these sentences about his former teacher
1890s - 1910s
„I do not paint by copying nature. Everything I do springs from my wild imagination.“
Zdroj: 1890s - 1910s, The Writings of a Savage (1996), p. 22: quote in a letter to Ambroise Vollard, 1900
