Painting is the art of hollowing a surface. - Georges Seurat - Quotesmemo.com

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Georges Seurat

Painting is the art of hollowing a surface.

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Originality depends only on the character of the drawing and the vision peculiar to each artist.

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The inability of some critics to connect the dots doesn't make pointillism pointless

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Some say they see poetry in my paintings; I see only science.

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Let's go and get drunk on light again - it has the power to console.

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Art is harmony. Harmony is the analogy of contrary and of similar elements of tone, of color and of line, conditioned by the dominate key, and under the influence of a particular light, in gay, calm, or sad combinations.

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It is an occult law moreover, that no man can rise superior to his individual failings without lifting, be it ever so little, the whole body of which he is an integral part. In the same way no one can sin, nor suffer the effects of sin, alone. In reality, there is no such thing as 'separateness' and the nearest approach to that selfish state which the laws of life permit is in the intent or motive.

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