Pure Drawing Is An Abstraction.

I Am Progressing Very Slowly, For Nature Reveals Herself To Me In Very Complex Forms; And The Progress Needed Is Incessant.

For An Impressionist To Paint From Nature Is Not To Paint The Subject, But To Realize Sensations.

Painting Is Damned Difficult - You Always Think You've Got It, But You Haven't.

The Louvre Is The Book In Which We Learn To Read. We Must Not, However, Be Satisfied With Retaining The Beautiful Formulas Of Our Illustrious Predecessors. Let Us Go Forth To Study Beautiful Nature, Let Us Try To Free Our Mids From Them, Let Us Strive To Express Ourselves According To Our Personal Temperaments. Time And Reflection, Moreover, Little By Little Modify Our Vision, And At Last Comprehension Comes To Us.

A Work Of Art Which Did Not Begin In Emotion Is Not Art.