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.

It is this research into pure painting that is the problem at the present moment. I do not know any painters in Paris who are really searching for this ideal world.

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

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

Light in Nature creates the movement of colors.

Nature engenders the science of painting

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