The clear French landscape is as pure as a verse of Racine.
See nature in terms of the cone, the cylinder, and the sphere.
Keep good company - that is, go to the Louvre.
We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.
Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly?
Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!