The first things to study are form and values. For me, these are the things that are the basics of what is serious in art.

Beauty in art is truth bathed in an impression received from nature. I am struck upon seeing a certain place. While I strive for conscientious imitation, I yet never for an instant lose the emotion that has taken hold of me.

Never lose the first impression which has moved you.

I always entreat the good Lord to give me my childhood back, that is to say, to grant that I may see nature and render it like a child, without prejudice.

The first things to study are form and values. For me, these are the things that are the basics of what is serious in art.

Art is nature as seen through a temperament.

...Art itself may be defined as a single minded attempt to render the highest kind of justice to the visible universe, by bringing to light the truth, manifold and one, underlying its every aspect.