Quotations

"I shut my eyes in order to see."

— Paul Gauguin, French Post-Impressionist artist, born 1848

"Oh mysterious world of all light, thou hast made a light shine within me."

— Paul Gauguin, French Post-Impressionist artist, born 1848

"I begin to feel an enormous need to become savage and to create a new world."

— Paul Gauguin, French Post-Impressionist artist, born 1948

"Why did I hesitate to put all this glory of the sun on my canvas?"

— Paul Gauguin, French Post-Impressionist artist, born 1948

"When I'm on stage, all is right with the world."

— Gloria Gaynor, American singer, born 1949

"Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth."

— Lou Gehrig, American baseball player, born 1903

"I think people care. If not, why do so many people spend money going on vacations to see architecture? They go to the Parthenon, to Chartres, to the Sydney Opera House. Something compels them."

— Frank Gehry, Canadian-American architect, born 1929

"Poets and artists have long walked along the border of their cultures, with their antennae alert to what’s in the air and underground, with their eyes open to the light and dark. Poetry, myth, prayer attempt to translate, to bring across into words, the soul’s journey to wholeness. They do not offer easy answers but a language which travels and comes home, a speech of heart and truth, ecstatic or sorrowful. This soul-language of windows and mirrors, a language of light and dark, a language of fire and water, radiance and depth, a language that somehow (I’m never quite sure how) always includes silence."

— J. Ruth Gendler, American writer

"The reality is, we can change. We can change ourselves. We can change our minds. We can change our hearts. And therefore the universe changes."

— Richard Gere, American actor, born 1949

"With the brush we merely tint, while the imagination alone produces color."

— Theodore Gericault, French painter, born 1791

"I was no chief and never had been, but because I had been more deeply wronged than others, this honor was conferred upon me, and I resolved to prove worthy of the trust."

— Geronimo, Apache leader, born 1829

"We had no churches, no religious organizations, so sabbath day, no holidays, and yet we worshiped. Sometimes the whole tribe would assemble and sing and pray; sometimes a smaller number, perhaps only two or three. The songs had a few words, but were not formal. The singer would occasionally put in such words as he wished instead of the usual tone sound. Sometimes we prayed in silence; sometimes each prayed aloud; sometimes an aged person prayed for all of us. At other times one would rise and speak to us of our duties to each other and to Usen. Our services were short."

— Geronimo, Apache leader, born 1829

"I got rhythm, I got music, I got my man—who could ask for anything more?"

— Ira Gershwin, American songwriter, born 1896

"My dark sound could be heard across a room clearer than somebody with a reedy sound. It had more projection. My sound always seemed to fill a room."

— Stan Getz, American saxophonist, born 1927