"When using colors to recreate a general harmony……" — Vincent Van Gogh
"When using colors to recreate a general harmony of tones in nature, one loses it by painfully exact imitation. One keeps it by recreating in an equivalent color range, and that may not be exactly, or far from exactly, like the model."
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346 Quotes by Vincent Van Gogh
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