"It is extraordinary that anyone could put so much mystery into so much brightness."
— Paul Gauguin

January 1, 1970

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Original: ll est extraordinaire qu'on puisse mettre tant de mystère dans tant d'éclat. — Quote of Stéphane Mallarmé, after seeing an exhibition of Gauguin's work in November 1893; cited by Gauguin at the heading of chapter I of Noa Noa (1893) and in a letter to André Fontainas (March 1899); also quoted in Charles Morice, Paul Gauguin (H. Floury, 1920; digitized by the University of Michigan, 2007), p. 220.