Two sittings a day of my models and I'm totally exhausted.
There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.
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.
Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.
It is not about painting life, it is about making painting alive.
The artist must scorn all judgment that is not based on an intelligent observation of character. He must beware of the literary spirit which so often causes a painting to deviate from its true path - the concrete study of nature - to lose itself all too long in intangible speculations.