“You have long known what I have tried to establish: the right to dare everything; yet the difficulty I have had finding enough money to live on has been too great, and my capacities have not produced a very big result but the mechanism has got underway nevertheless. The public does not owe me anything because the pictorial work I have done is only relatively good, but the painters who benefit from that freedom today do owe me something.”

— Paul Gauguin

Source: 1890s - 1910s, The Writings of a Savage (1996), p. 214: in a letter to George-Daniel de Monfreid, Marquesas Islands, October 1902

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