Our understanding is correlative to our perception.
Art in Nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint.
First of all, I always see the sun! The way I want to identify myself and others is with halos here and there halos, movements of color. And that, I believe, is rhythm.
Light comes to us by the sensibility. Without visual sensibility there is no light, no movement.
Nature engenders the science of painting
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.