A Quote by Paul Gauguin

Art is either a plagiarist or a revolutionist.

Paul Gauguin

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Paul Gauguin
French - Artist
June 7, 1848 - May 9, 1903

If I did what has already been done, I would be a plagiarist and would consider myself unworthy; so I do something different and people call me a scoundrel. I'd rather be a scoundrel than a plagiarist!

Paul Gauguin

Every man is a revolutionist concerning the thing he understands. For example, every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it, and consequently a revolutionist.

George Bernard Shaw

I was a radical, a revolutionist. I am still a revolutionist…I am glad I was in the Stonewall riot. I remember when someone threw a Molotov cocktail, I thought, “My god, the revolution is here. The revolution is finally here!

Sylvia Rivera

Art is its own excuse, and it's either Art or it's something else. It's either a poem or a piece of cheese.

Charles Bukowski

To make an omelette, you need not only those broken eggs but someone 'oppressed' to beat them: every revolutionist is presumed to understand that, and also every woman, which either does or does not make 51 percent of the population of the United States a potentially revolutionary class.

Joan Didion

Imagination...is the irrepressible revolutionist.

Wallace Stevens

My art collection is dominated by tribal art from Nigeria where I taught school, from New Guinea where we've travelled, and by Canadian Haida pieces. My own art is either on exhibition or owned by other people!

Robert Bateman

Feminism means revolution and I am a revolutionist.

Frances Perkins

I don't steal stories. If I'm a plagiarist, so is Hitchcock. And Tolkien. And Shakespeare.

Kerry Greenwood

Whether he be an original or a plagiarist, man is the novelist of himself.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

A plagiarist should be made to copy the author a hundred times.

Karl Kraus

Is the painter a plagiarist because he sets his palette to nature?

Benjamin West

No turtle can be a revolutionist, because revolution requires high speed!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

A revolutionist is one who desires to discard the existing social order and try another.

George Bernard Shaw

Art solves nothing, either for the artist himself or for those who receive his art.

Clement Greenberg

Either all things proceed from one intelligent source and come together as in one body, and the part ought not to find fault with what is done for the benefit of the whole; or there are only atoms, and nothing else than a mixture and dispersion. Why, then, art thou disturbed? Say to this ruling faculty, Art thou dead, art thou corrupted, art thou playing the hypocrite, art thou become a beast, dost thou herd and feed with the rest?

Marcus Aurelius

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