Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience.
Two sittings a day of my models and I'm totally exhausted.
Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!
Pure drawing is an abstraction.
One had to immerse oneself in one's surroundings and intensely study nature or one's subject to understand how to recreate it.
Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.