1:14:00
Your allowance,
his advance on my paintings...
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goes into this box.
Anything we spend, we write down.
1:14:05
So much for food, so much for drink,
for tobacco and other relaxation.
1:14:08
That way there'll be no more starving
at the end of each month. Understood?
1:14:12
Understood.
1:14:13
I still can't believe you're here.
1:14:16
Before you came here,
I was a little frightened.
1:14:19
I'd been alone so long that...
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I hope you, too, will find
what you want here, Paul.
1:14:25
A chance to create in peace.
1:14:28
This could be just the beginning.
We could get other painters here.
1:14:31
Make a colony of it. A studio of the south,
with you at its head.
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- A Father Superior?
- As its guiding force.
1:14:39
I thought maybe we'd ask Bernard
and Lautrec, only he'd never leave Paris.
1:14:44
- And Signac.
- Haven't you heard?
1:14:45
I've dismissed Mr. Signac
from the legion of my devoted admirers.
1:14:49
He bores me.
1:14:50
What about Guillaumin and Seurat?
1:14:52
- You know what I think of Seurat.
- He's so ill.
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- This place would do him good.
- It wouldn't do me good.
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I don't want that kind of painting
around me.
1:14:59
Vincent, I've just spent a year
beating my brains out.
1:15:02
I've sacrificed everything:
Execution, effect...
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all the things that come easiest to me,
for a style.
1:15:07
A style that'll convey the mood
of what I see...
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the idea, without regard
for concrete reality.
1:15:13
What do you paint, then?
1:15:15
What's in my head.
Art's an abstraction, not a picture book.
1:15:18
A painting is a flat surface
covered with lines and colors...
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arranged in certain order.
1:15:23
Yeah, but what about the arrangements
that exist in nature?
1:15:27
I choose to disregard nature.
What I'm after are harmonies...
1:15:31
harmonies of pure color, deliberately
composed and carefully calculated...
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that move you as music moves you.
1:15:38
But then you deny
the greatest artists of all:
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Rembrandt, Rubens, Delacroix, Millet...
1:15:43
Millet?
1:15:45
Millet! That calendar artist
with his dun-colored tones...
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- and sentimental insipidities.
- How dare you say that?
1:15:53
Millet's one of the few artists
that ever really captured the human spirit.
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Here. In the dignity of toil.
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Millet uses paint
to express the word of God.