The habit of breaking up one's colour to make it brilliant dates from further back than Impressionism - Couture advocates it in a little book called 'Causeries d'Atelier' written about 1860 - it is part of the technique of Impressionism but used for quite a different reason.

An artist painting a picture should have at his side a man with a club to hit him over the head when the picture is finished.

I do not judge, I only chronicle.

You can't do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh.

The habit of breaking up one's colour to make it brilliant dates from further back than Impressionism - Couture advocates it in a little book called 'Causeries d'Atelier' written about 1860 - it is part of the technique of Impressionism but used for quite a different reason.

A portrait is a picture in which there is just a tiny little something not quite right about the mouth.

A person with normal eyesight would have nothing to know in the way of 'Impressionism' unless he were in a blinding light or in the dusk or dark.