jan 24, 1897 - Gauguin - "Where do we come from?"

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“Civilization is what makes you sick.”

“immerse myself in virgin nature, see no one but savages, live their life, with no other thoughts in mind but to render the way a child would . . . and to do this with nothing but the primitive means of art, the only means that are good and true.

“Where are we going? Near the death of an old woman. A strange bird concludes. What are we? Mundane existence. The man of instinct wonders what all this means. Known symbols would congeal the canvas into a melancholy reality, and the problem indicated would no longer be poem.”

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