The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
Is it the factitious and the conventional that most surely succeed on earth and in the course of life?
Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
It is not about painting life, it is about making painting alive.
We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.
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.