"De amigo reconciliado e de caldo requentado, nunca bom bocado."

"The popular fancy that Gauguin 'discovered himself' as a painter in Tahiti is quite wrong. All the components of his …"

"I advised him [Gauguin] to go to New Orleans [where Degas stayed for a few months and painted there], but he decided …"

"Gauguin's work is symbolic, and he himself is a myth. He rejected the values of bourgeois society and of a machine ci…"

"The last thing that Bonnard and Vuillard and Matisse [artists of Nabis wanted to do was paint portentous allegories a…"

"One may wonder if any painter in the last century put more meaning into his sense of color than Gauguin."

"What is he, then? He is Gauguin, the savage who hates the burden of our civilization, a sort of Titan who, jealous of…"

"I have never wanted and never will accept the lack of modeling or gradation: it's an absurdity. Gauguin was not a pai…"

"Paul Gauguin, then [March 1885] still a Parisian stockbroker, had entered art as a collector of impressionist paintin…"

"freely and madly; you will make progress.. .Above all, don't sweat over a painting; a great sentiment can be rendered…"