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At Eternity's Gate

Why do you paint? I paint, as a matter of fact, to stop thinking. A sort of meditation....

Dr. Paul Gachet:
Why do you paint?
Vincent Van Gogh:
I paint, as a matter of fact, to stop thinking.
Dr. Paul Gachet:
A sort of meditation.
Vincent Van Gogh:
When I paint, I stop thinking.
Dr. Paul Gachet:
About what?
Vincent Van Gogh:
I stop thinking, and I feel that I'm a part of everything outside and inside of me. I wanted so much to share what I see

Full Transcript

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Why do you paint
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I paint
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as a matter of fact to stop thinking
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A sort of meditation
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When I paint I stop thinking
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About what
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I stop thinking
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and I feel
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that I'm a part of
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everything outside and inside of me
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I wanted
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so much to share what I see
Duration
52 seconds
Views
1,038
Timestamp in Movie
01:31:13
Uploaded
Nov 23, 2022
Genres
drama
Production
Iconoclast,Rahway Road Productions,Riverstone Pictures,SPK Pictures,RocketScience

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Movie Summary

Famed but tormented artist Vincent van Gogh spends his final years in Arles, France, painting masterworks of the natural world that surrounds him.

Actors

Mathieu Amalric
Dr. Paul Gachet
Mathieu Amalric
Willem Dafoe
Vincent Van Gogh
Willem Dafoe
An artist - At Eternity's Gate 00:24
An artist
Maybe what you are saying is that your gift to the world is painting - At Eternity's Gate 00:12
Maybe what you are saying is that your gift to the world is...
Your gift to the world is painting - At Eternity's Gate 00:16
Your gift to the world is painting
There's a lot of destruction and failure at the door of a successful picture - At Eternity's Gate 00:32
There's a lot of destruction and failure at the door of...
Sometimes they say I'm mad - At Eternity's Gate 00:09
Sometimes they say I'm mad
Will you receive your son - At Eternity's Gate 00:05
Will you receive your son
Maybe God made me a painter for people who aren't born yet - At Eternity's Gate 00:27
Maybe God made me a painter for people who aren't born...
I can make people feel what it's like to be alive - At Eternity's Gate 00:17
I can make people feel what it's like to be alive
But these flowers will wither and fade - At Eternity's Gate 00:29
But these flowers will wither and fade
As a matter of fact - At Eternity's Gate 00:31
As a matter of fact
I am my paintings - At Eternity's Gate 00:11
I am my paintings
Because my vision is closer to the reality of the world - At Eternity's Gate 00:28
Because my vision is closer to the reality of the world
I wanted so much to share what I see - At Eternity's Gate 00:25
I wanted so much to share what I see
Seurat confounds painting with science - At Eternity's Gate 00:44
Seurat confounds painting with science
Paintings have to be done in one clear gesture - At Eternity's Gate 01:45
Paintings have to be done in one clear gesture
Of all the miseries that afflict humanity - At Eternity's Gate 00:25
Of all the miseries that afflict humanity
Because painted reality is its own reality - At Eternity's Gate 00:16
Because painted reality is its own reality
Because nature is what we see here in our heads - At Eternity's Gate 00:34
Because nature is what we see here in our heads
I just want to be one of them - At Eternity's Gate 01:37
I just want to be one of them