Quotes About Seurat

#1. Anyway, for whatever interest is to be derived therefrom. Bacon, Balthus, and Magritte are my three favourite painters, along with Dubuffet, of the whole post-impressionist period, by which I mean that before them Bonnard, Vuillard, & Seurat are my favourite painters of that time.

Edward Gorey

#2. Vor stared for a moment at his own reflection in the familiar mirrored face, remembering some of the stupid jokes his friend had told and the innovative military games they had played together. Seurat had never harmed him in any way.

Brian Herbert

#3. I learned from Seurat this important thing about colour and light, that 'a light' can be built from colour. I learned a great deal about interaction, that 'a blue' in different parts will play all sorts of different roles.

Bridget Riley

#4. Your outrageous and reckless chaos is the only reason you are able to beat me in any strategy game," Seurat said. "It certainly has nothing to do with your innate skills.

Brian Herbert

#5. I would never look a gift horse in the mouth. I've had some lovely homemade earrings and, recently, a wall hanging made in the style of Georges Seurat.

Rebecca Stead

#6. I don't think Seurat would have been aware of the dots - he would have been aware of what he was trying to do. The dots were an instrument.

Frank Auerbach

#7. Seurat's flowmetal face gleamed in the lights from his update ship's cockpit. Then I regret having been such an excellent teacher.

Brian Herbert

#8. All painting, beginning with Impressionism, is antiscientific, even Seurat. I was interested in introducing the precise and exact aspect of science, which hadn't often been done, or at least hadn't been talked about very much.

Marcel Duchamp

#9. Originality depends only on the character of the drawing and the vision peculiar to each artist.

Georges Seurat

#10. San Francisco is the only city I can think of that can survive all the things you people are doing to it and still look beautiful.

Frank Lloyd Wright

#11. 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

#12. One hour's meditation on the work of the Creator is better than seventy years of prayer.

Elijah Muhammad

#13. Painting is the art of hollowing a surface.

Georges Seurat

#14. Our life is psychological, and the purpose of life is to make psyche of it, to find connections between life and soul.

James Hillman

#15. If you're just creative, you'll always have to rely on technical people. If you're creative and technical, you're unstoppable.

Robert Rodriguez

#16. Some say they see poetry in my paintings; I see only science.

Georges Seurat

#17. When you resort to violence to prove a point, you've just experienced a profound failure of imagination.

Sherman Alexie

#18. They see poetry in what I have done. No. I apply my methods, and that is all there is to it.

Georges Seurat

#19. The Law is a grim, unsmiling thing. Not Justice, though. Justice is witty and whimsical and kind and caring.

Rohinton Mistry

#20. Let's go and get drunk on light again - it has the power to console.

Georges Seurat

#21. Never criticize Americans. They have the best taste that money can buy.

Miles Kington

#22. In the 20th century, the Soviet Union made the state's role absolute. In the long run, this made the Soviet economy totally uncompetitive. This lesson cost us dearly. I am sure nobody wants to see it repeated.

Vladimir Putin

#23. The attainment of the present status of Thailand has to depend on the ability or the actions of all the inhabitants of the country.

Bhumibol Adulyadej

#24. I was obsessed with fashion when I was young. I thought fashion meant fashion design, and I thought I wanted to be a designer at some point.

Nina Garcia

#25. We are in favor of tolerance, but it is a very difficult thing to tolerate the intolerant and impossible to tolerate the intolerable.

George D. Prentice

#26. The inability of some critics to connect the dots doesn't make pointillism pointless

Georges Seurat