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.

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

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

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

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.

Impressionism; it is the birth of Light in painting.

Seeing is in itself a movement.