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

Light in Nature creates the movement of colors.

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.

Human vision is endowed with the greatest Reality, since it comes to us directly from the contemplation of the Universe.

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

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

Nature engenders the science of painting