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.

Impressionism; it is the birth of Light in painting.

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.

The eye is the most refined of our senses, the one which communicates most directly with our mind, our consciousness.

Vision is the true creative rhythm.

Nature engenders the science of painting

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.