(From _Gauguin's Intimate Journals_, page 109)
"Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?"
(From _‘Notes Synthètiques’ 1885, as quoted by Richard Nathanson)
"Painting is the most beautiful of all the arts. It is the summation of all our sensations, and contemplating it, we can each, according to our imagination, create the story. In a single glance, our souls can be flooded with the most profound reflections. No effort of memory, everything summed up in a single instant. A complex art which contains and completes all the others. Like music, it works on the soul through the intermediary of the senses. Harmonies of tones correspond to harmonies of sound…"
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