I came across this rather horrifying picture of Gauguin, and felt I had to leave a few more of his own words next to this painting.
“All the joys—animal and human—of a free life are mine. I have escaped everything that is artificial, conventional, customary. I am entering into the truth, into nature.”
“The self-esteem one acquires and a well-earned feeling of one’s strength are the only consolation in this world. Income, after all, most brutes have that.”
“Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge — and has to content oneself with dreaming.”