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

The auditory perception is not sufficient for our knowledge of the world; it does not have vastness.

Our understanding is correlative to our perception.

Painting is by nature a luminous language.

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.

This communication alone, by the comparison of the antagonisms, rivalries, movements which give birth to decisive moments, permits the evolution of the soul, whereby a man realizes himself on earth. It is impossible to be concerned with anything else in art.

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