Lust for Life
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You know these men.
You handled some of them.

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Why didn't you tell me about it?
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I wrote you in Antwerp.
Don't you read my letters?

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But seeing them, the colors,
and what they've done with light.

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- Is that painting?
- The critics and the public don't think so...

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nor do my employers at Goupil's.
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I can't believe it.
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Now, if they're right,
then everything I've done is wrong.

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Do they really know what they're doing?
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You've got to meet and talk to them,
see what they think.

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That's why I wanted you in Paris.
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Where can I meet them?
I got so many questions.

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- At 2:00 in the morning?
- Why not?

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Listen, take that thing off and settle down.
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You live here, you know.
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We've got to make a Parisian out of you.
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You'll have lots of time
to get your answers.

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Tomorrow, we'll start with Pissarro.
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It's the problem of translating light
into the language of paint.

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Those leaves there,
if they were the only thing in sight...

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they'd have one color, their own.
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But the shade and reflection
of everything around...

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the sky, the earth, the water,
give them more than their own color.

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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.
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Trust your first impression.
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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...

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pouring rivers of paint
into haphazard combinations...

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when actually, everything we're after
can be achieved mathematically.

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What are you talking about? Seurat again?
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Do you really think
a painting can be done by formula?

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Can be? Is being done, right here in Paris...
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through precise, scientific methods.
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I don't mix my colors on canvas.
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I mix them in the eye of the spectator.

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