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. -Paul Gauguin

 

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.


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This quote is just one of 9 total Paul Gauguin quotes in our collection. Paul Gauguin is known for saying '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.' as well as some of the following quotes.

I shut my eyes in order to see.

Paul Gauguin

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Paul Gauguin

We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves.

Paul Gauguin

Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.

Paul Gauguin

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