"Do not paint too much from nature. Art is an abstraction; extract it from nature while dreaming in front of it and pay more attention to the act of creation than to the result ... [...]... attempts at synthesising one form and one colour, without either being the dominant" 

Paul Gauguin.1888

Portrait de l'artiste au Christ jaune, The Artist with the Yellow Christ, 1890–1891,  Musée d'Orsay, Paris