Chatter about art is almost always useless.

Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience.

Right now a moment of time is fleeting by! Capture its reality in paint! To do that we must put all else out of our minds. We must become that moment, make ourselves a sensitive recording plate...Give the image of what we actually see, forgetting everything that has been seen before our time.

Is it the factitious and the conventional that most surely succeed on earth and in the course of life?

What I am trying to translate to you is more mysterious, it is entwined in the very roots of being, in the implacable source of sensations.

An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all.

Time and reflection change the sight little by little 'till we come to understand.