Paul Gauguin

Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are masters.

Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.