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I've sacrificed everything:
Execution, effect...
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all the things that come easiest to me,
for a style.
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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...
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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?
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Millet's one of the few artists
that ever really captured the human spirit.
1:15:56
Here. In the dignity of toil.
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Millet uses paint
to express the word of God.
1:16:01
Then he should have been a preacher,
not a painter.
1:16:04
If there's one thing I despise,
it's emotionalism in painting.
1:16:07
- Vincent, painting is for painters.
- Like your friend Degas, I suppose...
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who's done nothing but ballet dancers
and racehorses for 10 years.
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You can learn from him.
You can learn control!
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I don't want control!
I'm not afraid of emotion.
1:16:18
When I paint the sun,
I want the people to feel it revolving...
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giving off light and heat.
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When I paint a peasant...
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I want to feel the sun pouring into him
like it does into the corn...
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Is that what you do
when you overload your brush?
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When you slap paint on like putty?
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When you make your trees
writhe like snakes...
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and your sun explode all over the canvas?
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What I see when I look at your work
is that you paint too fast!
1:16:38
You look too fast!
1:16:43
Whatever you say, brigadier.
1:16:47
Maybe you're right.
1:16:52
Maybe we need another drink.