Top 27 Seurat's Quotes
#1. 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
#2. The inability of some critics to connect the dots doesn't make pointillism pointless
Georges Seurat
#3. The demands of Jesus are difficult because they require us to do something extraordinary. At the same time He asks us to regard these [acts of goodness] as something usual, ordinary.
Albert Schweitzer
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. Are you prepared to have quite
obvious things explained to you, to ask futile questions, to give me
chances of scoring off you, to make brilliant discoveries of your own
two or three days after I have made them myself all that kind of thing?
A.A. Milne
#9. The experience is no longer traumatic; the response of most women to the experience is relief.
Dawn Johnsen
#10. A box of new crayons! Now they're all pointy, lined up in order, bright and perfect. Soon they'll be a bunch of ground down, rounded, indistinguishable stumps, missing their wrappers and smudged with other colors. Sometimes life seems unbearably tragic.
Bill Watterson
#11. The human person, whose definition serves as the touchstone according to which good must be distinguished from evil, is considered as sacred, in what one might call the ritual sense of the word. It has something of that transcendental majesty which the churches of all times have given to their Gods.
Emile Durkheim
#12. Let's go and get drunk on light again - it has the power to console.
Georges Seurat
#13. They see poetry in what I have done. No. I apply my methods, and that is all there is to it.
Georges Seurat
#15. What I find most interesting about acting is transforming myself.
Helen McCrory
#16. Some say they see poetry in my paintings; I see only science.
Georges Seurat
#18. 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
#19. 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
#21. 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
#22. But you know, sometimes not getting what you want is getting exactly what you need.
Stephanie Evanovich
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. 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
#27. Originality depends only on the character of the drawing and the vision peculiar to each artist.
Georges Seurat
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