All My Compatriots Are Asses

What I Am Trying To Translate To You Is More Mysterious, It Is Entwined In The Very Roots Of Being, In The Implacable Source Of Sensations.

Painting From Nature Is Not Copying The Object; It Is Realizing One's Sensations.

I Am The Primitive Of The Method I Have Invented.

I Paint As If I Were Rothschild.

Knowledge Of The Means To Express Our Emotion Is Essential- And Is Acquired Only After A Very Long Experience.