Poor artist! You gave away part of your soul when you painted the picture which you are now trying to dispose of.
Paul GauguinThe 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.
Paul GauguinBeautiful colors exist, though we do not realize it, and are glimpsed behind the veil that modesty has drawn over them.
Paul Gauguin