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The frame [is no longer as in the beginning version] is in a harmony opposed to those of the tones, tints, and lines of the [motif of the] picture.

— Georges Seurat

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

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

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.

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