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.
- Paul Gauguin - In Art
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Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
- Paul Gauguin - In Art
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There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite.
- Paul Gauguin - In Art
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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.
- Paul Gauguin - In Art
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It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.
- Paul Gauguin - In Imagination
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I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.
- Ursula K. Le Guin - In Imagination
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