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

Impressionism; it is the birth of Light in painting.

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

Light comes to us by the sensibility. Without visual sensibility there is no light, no movement.

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.

First of all, I always see the sun! The way I want to identify myself and others is with halos here and there halos, movements of color. And that, I believe, is rhythm.

On the other hand, the artist has much to do in the realm of color construction, which is so little explored and so obscure, and hardly dates back any farther than to the beginning of Impressionism.