Time and reflection change the sight little by little 'till we come to understand.

Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.

One had to immerse oneself in one's surroundings and intensely study nature or one's subject to understand how to recreate it.

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.

I paint as if I were Rothschild.

I have to keep working, not to arrive at finish, which arouses the admiration of fools... I must seek completion only for the pleasure of being truer and more knowing.

I am the primitive of the method I have invented.