"The people of Tahiti have invented a word:
"No artu," which means "I couldn't care less!"
Here it means pretty much the same as complete
serenity and naturalness. You cannot imagine
how I have grown accostumed to this word.
I often say it - and I understand it"
Paul Gauguin
The King's Wife, 1896
Paul Gauguin
The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow
