One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
A thousand painters ought to be killed yearly. Say what you like: I'm every inch a painter.
You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
Painting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't.
Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.
The landscape becomes human, becomes a thinking, living being within me. I become one with my picture...we merge in an iridescent chaos.