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That's why, when you paint from nature,
don't fix your eye on any one spot.
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Take in everything at once.
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And above all, don't be timid.
:48:10
Trust your first impression.
:48:28
Everything you've been doing,
what we've all been doing. ; obsolete...
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the whole lot of us
guessing with every brush stroke...
:48:35
pouring rivers of paint
into haphazard combinations...
:48:39
when actually, everything we're after
can be achieved mathematically.
:48:43
What are you talking about? Seurat again?
:48:45
Do you really think
a painting can be done by formula?
:48:48
Can be? Is being done, right here in Paris...
:48:52
through precise, scientific methods.
:48:54
I don't mix my colors on canvas.
:48:56
I mix them in the eye of the spectator.
:49:00
Once you accept the phenomenon of
the duration of light in the human retina...
:49:04
Excuse me. But this is a sunlit exterior.
:49:06
Now, why do you paint it indoors
by gaslight?
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- I mean, how can you judge your colors?
- Why not?
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Come on, Seurat,
put him out of his misery.
:49:15
- I've tried, but he's still in darkness.
- All right, Bernard. Come here.
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Everything I do is worked out in advance...
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with mathematical accuracy,
through precise scientific methods.
:49:27
I know exactly
what colors I'm going to use...
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before I pick up my brushes.
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And my palette is methodically prepared
in the order of the spectrum.
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As you see, blue, blue-violet,
violet, violet-red...
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red, red-orange, orange-yellow...