Self-Portrait with HaloPaul Gauguin
1889
Oil on wood
79.2 × 51.3 cm (31.18 × 20.20 in)
National Gallery of Art
Washington, D.C.
"Painting is the most beautiful of all arts. In it, all sensations are condensed, at its aspect everyone may create romance at the will of his imagination, and at a glance have his soul invaded by the most profound memories, no efforts of memory, everything summed up in one moment. Complete art which sums up all the others and completes them. Like music, it acts on the soul through the intermediary of the senses, the harmonious tones corresponding to the harmonies of sounds, but in painting, a unity is obtained which is not possible in music, where the accords follow one another, and the judgment experiences a continuous fatigue if one wants to reunite the end and the beginning. In the main, the ear is an inferior sense to the eye. The hearing can only grasp a single sound at one time, whereas the sight takes in everything and at the same time simplifies at its will." - Paul Gauguin
"I shut my eyes in order to see." - Paul Gauguin
"Art = a mad search for individualism." - Paul Gauguin
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