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

— Georges Seurat

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On Pissarro's advice I'm abandoning the emerald green..

Allow me to point out an inaccuracy in your biography of Signac, or rather, in order to set aside all doubt, allow me to specify..

..the flag is green with a red spot in the center; above, the blue of the sky, the orange-tinted white of the walls, and the orange-grey of the clouds.

I painted like that because I wanted to get through to something new - a kind of painting that was my own.

They [the visitors in his studio, praising his work] see poetry in what I have done. No, I apply my method and that is all there is to it.

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