Georges Seurat famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Originality depends only on the character of the drawing and the vision peculiar to each artist.
-- Georges Seurat

#Character #Artist #Drawing
Some say they see poetry in my paintings; I see only science.
-- Georges Seurat

#Painting
Art is harmony. Harmony is the analogy of contrary and of similar elements of tone, of color and of line, conditioned by the dominate key, and under the influence of a particular light, in gay, calm, or sad combinations.
-- Georges Seurat

#Art #Gay #Color
Painting is the art of hollowing a surface.
-- Georges Seurat

#Art #Painting #Surface
Let's go and get drunk on light again - it has the power to console.
-- Georges Seurat

#Light #Drunk #Drunkenness
They see poetry in what I have done. No. I apply my methods, and that is all there is to it.
-- Georges Seurat

#Done #Methodology #Method
The inability of some critics to connect the dots doesn't make pointillism pointless
-- Georges Seurat

#Inability #Dots #Critics

Is it a particularly British trait to so utterly adore truly appalling men, from Tony Hancock through to Steptoe and Alf Garnett, Captain Mainwaring, Rigsby, Del Boy, Victor Meldrew and on to David Brent from The Office. The most deeply adored characters are all simply vile.
The difference between human heroes and sacred characters lies just in this: the man is just a man, but behind the man of God, God Himself is ever standing greater than the man and overshadowing him by His infinite and glorious presence.
The Srimad-Bhagavatam states that any bona fide preacher of God consciousness must have the qualities of titiksa (tolerance) and karuna (compassion). In the character of Lord Jesus Christ we find both these qualities.
Mammootty sir is an idol for me.. His uniqueness in developing characters is quite amazing
Don't ever forget that you're a citizen of this world, and there are things you can do to lift the human spirit, things that are easy, things that are free, things that you can do every day. Civility, respect, kindness, character.
The artist draws a picture of a rose very nicely with all attention and artistic sense, and yet it does not become as perfect as the real rose. If that is the real fact, how can we say that the real rose has taken its shape without Intelligence behind the beauty?
Painting cannot be the only activity of a mature artist.
Drawing Dead is a brilliant noir from one of Australia's most exciting new novelists.
The activities of drawing, eating and drinking, all involve assimilations by the self of desirable elements from the world, a transfer of goodness from without to within.
To draw a tree, to pay such close attention to every aspect of a tree, is an act of reverence not only toward the tree, and toward the earth itself, but also our human connection to it. This is one of the magical things about drawing -- it gives us almost visionary moments of connectedness.

Georges Seurat famous quotes

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