Pure drawing is an abstraction.

With a painter's temperament, all that's needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.

The world doesn't understand me and I don't understand the world, that's why I've withdrawn from it.

When I start thinking, all is lost.

If I were called upon to define briefly the word Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the senses preceive in nature, seen through the veil of the soul.

You say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.

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