Artist Paul Gauguin was born on this day in 1848.
"Fame! What a vain word, and what a vain recompense!" he wrote. "I think only of withdrawing myself far from men, and in consequence far from fame."
"Don't talk to me of Gauguin. I'd like to wring the fellow's neck!" -- Paul Cezanne.
Saturday, June 7, 2008
He withdrew, to save his soul -- and his neck
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paul. cynicism as a default characteristic gets tiring and sad. i do not misunderstand cynics; i am, after all, one of them. but i pity them and me for being blinded by their own un-blindedness.
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