Georges Seurat

"The art of painting is the Art of hollowing out a canvas."

"I painted like that because I wanted to get through to something new - a kind of painting that was my own."

"Knowing Corot's ideas on tone .. and Couture's precepts on the subtlety of tints , having been struck by the intuition of Monet and Pissarro.. .Rood having been brought to my attention in an article b…"

"I knew van Gogh less intimately. I spoke to him for the first time in 1887 in a popular eatery near 'La Fourche', Avenue de Clichy, , . A huge windowed room was decorated with his canvases. He exhibit…"

"The purity of the spectral element being the keystone of my.. ..searching for an optical formula on this basis ever, since I held a brush 1876 - 1884.. ..having read Charles Blanc in school and theref…"

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"In conclusion I am going to give you the aesthetic and technical note that concludes Mr. Christophe's piece and which originated with me; I am modifying it a little, not having been well understood by…"

"The means of expression is the optical mixture of tones, of tints , that is, of the lights and of their reactions following the laws of contrast, of gradation, of irradiation."