The expressive techniques of painting are capable of conveying an analogy but not an impossible photograph of a moment.

Conceive of a picture really as a series of harmonies.

The expressive techniques of painting are capable of conveying an analogy but not an impossible photograph of a moment.

There is no art without a poetic aim.

To say that a thing is beautiful is simply an act of faith, not a measurement on some kind of scale.

Nothing is important save the spiritual state that enables one to subjectify one's thoughts to a sensation and to think only of the sensation, all the while searching to express it.

Who speaks of art speaks of poetry. There is not art without a poetic aim. There is a species of emotion particular to painting. There is an effect that results from a certain arrangement of colors, of lights, of shadows. It is this that one calls the music of painting