Conceive of a picture really as a series of harmonies.

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

We perceive nature through the senses, which give us images of forms of colour, sounds etc. A form which exists only in relation to another form on its own, it does not exist.

Conceive of a picture really as a series of harmonies.

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

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.