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
„Pojedu tedy na Tahiti a zemřu tam. Moje umění, které milujete, je jenom semeno a doufám, že je na Tahiti v primitivní, divoké půdě vypěstuji. Slávu ať mají jiní, já potřebuji klid. Francouzský Gauguin je mrtev, už o něm neuslyšíte. V Evropě mě bezpochyby čeká se svým hadím ocasem smrt, ale na Tahiti ji vidím jako kořeny, z kterých opět vykvetou všechny květiny.“
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.
„Velká výzva života spočívá nakonec v tom, že překonáš hranice v sobě samotném a dojdeš tak daleko, že bys o tom nikdy ani nesnil.“
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]
„Nejsem malíř podle přírody – dnes méně než kdykoli před tím. Všechno se u mě odehrává v mé šílené imaginaci.“
Zdroj: [Sedlák, Jan, Paul Gauguin, Odeon, Praha, 1978, 2, 83, Malá galerie, 19, 31, česky]
„With what is he concerned? Drawing was at its lowest ebb; it had to be restored. Looking at these nudes, I exclaim, 'Drawing has come back again!'
As a man and painter he sets an example. 'Degas' is one of those rare masters who could have had anything he wanted, yet he scorned decorations, honors, fortune, without bitterness, without jealousy.“
Quote of Paul Gauguin, in Avant et après (1903)
1890s - 1910s
„At the age of ten, twenty, a hundred, very young, a little older, and very old, an artist is always an artist. Isn't he better at some times, some moments, than at others? Never impeccable, since he is a living, human being?“
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
„If we observe the totality of Camille Pissarro's works, we find there, despite the fluctuations, not only an extreme artistic will which never lies, but what is more, an essentially intuitive pure-bred art... He looked at everybody, you say! Why not? Everyone looked at him, too, but denied him. He was one of my masters and I do not deny him.“
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
„Don't copy nature too closely. Art is an abstraction; as you dream amide nature, extrapolate art from it and concentrate on what you will create as a result.“
Zdroj: 1870s - 1880s, The Writings of a Savage (1996), pp. 5 & 22: Gauguin is advising a fellow painter, 1885
