Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
The clear French landscape is as pure as a verse of Racine.
For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.
Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
There is a logic of colors, and it is with this alone, and not with the logic of the brain, that the painter should conform.