You don't even paint that way. You paint fast and you overpaint. Your surface looks like...
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Paul Gauguin:
You have to plan your paintings slowly. What's the rush? Work calmly, slowly. You're indoors, you're not outside in the wind and the noise. Vincent Van Gogh:
Paintings have to be done in one clear gesture. Paul Gauguin:
Think about the surface that you're painting on and how the paint will sit on it. You're changing things so fast, you can't even see what you've done. Vincent Van Gogh:
Paintings have to be painted fast. [We see Vincent in an art gallery as he names a number of master painters] Vincent Van Gogh:
Painters I look at: Frans Hals, Goya, Velazquez, Veronese, Delacroix. The painters I like all paint fast in one clear gesture, each stroke. You've heard of a stroke of genius? Well, that's what it means. Paul Gauguin:
You don't even paint that way. You paint fast and you overpaint. Your surface looks like it's made out of clay. It's more like sculpture than painting
You have to plan your paintings slowly. What's the rush? Work calmly, slowly. You're indoors, you're not outside in the wind and the noise. Vincent Van Gogh:
Paintings have to be done in one clear gesture. Paul Gauguin:
Think about the surface that you're painting on and how the paint will sit on it. You're changing things so fast, you can't even see what you've done. Vincent Van Gogh:
Paintings have to be painted fast. [We see Vincent in an art gallery as he names a number of master painters] Vincent Van Gogh:
Painters I look at: Frans Hals, Goya, Velazquez, Veronese, Delacroix. The painters I like all paint fast in one clear gesture, each stroke. You've heard of a stroke of genius? Well, that's what it means. Paul Gauguin:
You don't even paint that way. You paint fast and you overpaint. Your surface looks like it's made out of clay. It's more like sculpture than painting
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You have to plan your paintings slowly
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What's the rush
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Work calmly slowly
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You're indoors you're not outside in the wind and the noise
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Paintings have to be done in one clear gesture
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Think about the surface that you're painting on
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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.
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Paul Gauguin
Vincent Van Gogh
