Georges Seurat - Art Quotes

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Aesthetic:
Art is Harmony.
Harmony is the analogy of opposites, the analogy of similarities of tone, of tint, of line taking account of a dominant and under the influence of the lighting, in combinations that are gay calm or sad

Georges Seurat
I have told him nothing [an art-journalist in Paris who wrote in 1887: 'Seurat sees his paternity of the theory Neo-Impressionism contested by misinformed critics and unscrupulous comrades'], but what I have always thought: the more of us (Neo-Impressionists) there are, the less originality we will have, and the day when everyone this technique, it will no longer have any value and people will look for something new as is already happening... It is my right to think this and to say it, since I paint in this way [Neo-Impressionistic], only to find a new approach which is my own.

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

Georges Seurat
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 therefore knowing Chevreul's laws and Eugene Delacroix's precepts, having read the studies by the same Charles Blanc on the same painter [Delacroix] (in 'Gazette des Beaux-Arts', vol. xvi, if I remember correctly)

Georges Seurat
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