The source

[pjthompson]

Random quote of the day:

“In order to do something new we must go back to the source, humanity in its infancy.”

—Paul Gauguin, interview with Eugène Tardieu, L’Écho de Paris, May 13, 1895

Disclaimer:  The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

Mirrored from Better Than Dead.

Comments

[mount-oregano.livejournal.com]

Antoní Gaudí (the architect who designed La Sagrada Familia Church in Barcelona) said: "La originalidad consiste en volver al origen." "Originality consists in returning to the origin."

[pjthompson.livejournal.com]

I think it's a sentiment that many artists have expressed/thought in one way or another. I certainly don't think it started with Gauguin.