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.

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

Our understanding is correlative to our perception.

Painting is by nature a luminous language.

But what I attach great importance to is observation of the movement of colors. It is only in this way that I have found the laws of complementary contrast and the simultaneity of those colors that nourish the rhythm of my vision. There I find the representative essence — which does not arise from a system or an a priori theory.

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