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.

Painting is by nature a luminous language.

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

If Art relates itself to an Object, it becomes descriptive, divisionist, literary.

Nature engenders the science of painting

I say it is indispensable to look ahead of and behind oneself in the present. If there is such a thing as tradition, and I believe there is, it can only exist in the sense of the most profound movements of culture.

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