After cleaned his palette of muddy tones and insipid graduations of colour, he kept only the purest and crudest of tints, those highest in key, setting them down in abrupt but harmonious contrast.
Van Gogh probably felt that each color had quite a different meaning, possessed a spiritual value, symbolized the essence of being and carried a transcendent message.
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