“My eyes close and uncomprehendingly see the dream in the infinite space that stretches away, elusive, before me.”

— Paul Gauguin

Original: Mes yeux se ferment pour voir sans comprendre le rêve dans l'espace infini qui fuit devant moi.
Source: 1890s - 1910s, The Writings of a Savage (1996), pp. 184-185: Letter to André Fontainas, March 1899

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French Post-Impressionist artist 1848–1903

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