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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Painting is by nature a luminous language.