You have no idea how life-giving it is to find around one a youth that agrees not to bury one on the spot.

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

What is one to think of those fools who tell one that the artist is always subordinate to nature? Art is a harmony parallel with nature.

You have no idea how life-giving it is to find around one a youth that agrees not to bury one on the spot.

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.

Is it the factitious and the conventional that most surely succeed on earth and in the course of life?

Painting, like any art, comprises a technique, a workmanlike handling of material, but the accuracy of a tone and the fictitious combination of effects depend entirely on the choice made by the artist.