I am very much afraid of definitions, and yet one is almost forced to make them. One must take care, too, not to be inhibited by them.

The eye is the most refined of our senses, the one which communicates most directly with our mind, our consciousness.

Art in Nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint.

Direct observation of the luminous essence of nature is for me indispensable

I am very much afraid of definitions, and yet one is almost forced to make them. One must take care, too, not to be inhibited by them.

Vision is the true creative rhythm.

Nature engenders the science of painting