Cultivate An Ever-continuous Power Of Observation. Wherever

Mine Is The Horny Hand Of Toil.

I Hate To Paint Portraits! I Hope Never To Paint Another Portrait In My Life. Portraiture May Be All Right For A Man In His Youth, But After Forty I Believe That Manual Dexterity Deserts One, And, Besides, The Color-sense Is Less Acute. Youth Can Better Stand The Exactions Of A Personal Kind That Are Inseparable From Portraiture. I Have Had Enough Of It.

An Artist Painting A Picture Should Have At His Side A Man With A Club To Hit Him Over The Head When The Picture Is Finished.

The Habit Of Breaking Up One's Colour To Make It Brilliant Dates From Further Back Than Impressionism - Couture Advocates It In A Little Book Called 'causeries D'atelier' Written About 1860 - It Is Part Of The Technique Of Impressionism But Used For Quite A Different Reason.

Impressionism' Was The Name Given To A Certain Form Of Observation When Monet, Not Content With Using His Eyes To See What Things Were Or What They Looked Like As Everybody Had Done Before Him, Turned His Attention To Noting What Took Place On His Own Retina (as An Oculist Would Test His Own Vision).