Gauguin's Intimate Journals Quotes

“Brave as you may be, wise even as you may be, you tremble when the earth trembles. That is a sensation common to everybody and which no one would ever deny.”
― Paul Gauguin, Gauguin's Intimate Journals

“Moved by an unconsious sentiment born out of solitude and savagery - idle tales of a noughty child who sometimes reflects and who is always a lover of the beautiful - the beauty that is personal - the only beauty that is human.”
― Paul Gauguin, Gauguin's Intimate Journals

“Be stingy of nothing but the name of friend, and take care not to waste your insults.”
― Paul Gauguin, Gauguin's Intimate Journals

“To a man who has not succeeded we say 'You made a mistake'.
To a man who ha lost at the lottery, 'You had bad luck'.”
― Paul Gauguin, Gauguin's Intimate Journals

“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, Gauguin's Intimate Journals

“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 were not always saying the opposite. It's so small a thing, the life of man, and yet there is time to do great things, fragments of the common task. I wish to love, and I cannot. I wish not to love, and I cannot.”
― Paul Gauguin, Gauguin's Intimate Journals