The relation of color and the relation of proportion are both based on the relation of position.

Evolution is always the work of pioneers, and their followers are always small in number. This following is not a clique; it is the result of all the existing social forces; it is composed of all those who through innate or acquired capacity are ready to represent the existing degree of human revolution.

The emotion of beauty is always obscured by the appearance of the object. Therefore, the object must be eliminated from the picture.

Intellect confuses intuition.

I hate everything approaching temperamental inspiration,'sacred fire'and all those attributes of genius which serve only as cloaks for untidy minds.

Why should art continue to follow nature when every other field has left nature behind?

I, too, find the flower beautiful in its outward appearance. But a deeper beauty lies concealed within.