Quotes by Gauguin, Paul

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the l >>

We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on o >>

Art is either plagiarism or revolution. >>

Quotations about Missionaries

Exporting Church employees to Latin America masks a universal and unco >>

Go practice if you please with men and women: leave a child alone for >>

The Christian missionary may preach the gospel to the poor naked heath >>

The missionary is no longer a man, a conscience. He is a corpse, in the hands of a confraternity, without family, without love, without any of the sentiments that are dear to us. Emasculated, in a sense, by his vow of chastity, he offers us the distressing spectacle of a man deformed and impotent or engaged in a stupid and useless struggle with the sacred needs of the flesh, a struggle which, seven times out of ten, leads him to sodomy, the gallows, or prison.

Gauguin, Paul