:46:00
She'll never tell you, so I felt I must.
:46:06
I'll get out. Take a few days to finish this,
and then I'll leave.
:46:09
No, Vincent. I didn't mean that.
:46:12
Of course you did, Willemien.
:46:17
It's all right.
:46:20
I've accomplished
what I stayed here to do...
:46:24
and maybe it is time to move on.
:46:29
I'm sick and tired of these cheap jokes.
Art is a serious business.
:46:32
And in Paris, at least.
An artist with a new idea should be...
:46:35
For once I agree with you, Durand-Ruel.
Impressionism is not a joke.
:46:38
It's a cancer and it must be cut out.
:46:40
Condone anarchism in the arts,
and you seal the doom of France.
:46:43
What would you do?
Padlock the galleries...
:46:45
- and ship the painters off to Devil's Island?
- No.
:46:47
They don't paint.
They load pistols with tubes of paint...
:46:50
and fire them at the canvas.
:46:52
And then have the audacity
to sign their names...
:46:54
Cézanne, Signac, Pissarro,
Gauguin, Renoir, Monet.
:47:00
You know these men.
You handled some of them.
:47:02
Why didn't you tell me about it?
:47:04
I wrote you in Antwerp.
Don't you read my letters?
:47:06
But seeing them, the colors,
and what they've done with light.
:47:11
- Is that painting?
- The critics and the public don't think so...
:47:14
nor do my employers at Goupil's.
:47:16
I can't believe it.
:47:17
Now, if they're right,
then everything I've done is wrong.
:47:20
Do they really know what they're doing?
:47:22
You've got to meet and talk to them,
see what they think.
:47:24
That's why I wanted you in Paris.
:47:26
Where can I meet them?
I got so many questions.
:47:28
- At 2:00 in the morning?
- Why not?
:47:31
Listen, take that thing off and settle down.
:47:34
You live here, you know.
:47:37
We've got to make a Parisian out of you.
:47:41
You'll have lots of time
to get your answers.
:47:43
Tomorrow, we'll start with Pissarro.
:47:46
It's the problem of translating light
into the language of paint.
:47:50
Those leaves there,
if they were the only thing in sight...
:47:52
they'd have one color, their own.
:47:55
But the shade and reflection
of everything around...
:47:58
the sky, the earth, the water,
give them more than their own color.