The Living Model, The Naked Body Of

I Cannot Copy Nature In A Servile Way; I Am Forced To Interpret Nature And Submit It To The Spirit Of The Picture. From The Relationship I Have Found In All The Tones There Must Result A Living Harmony Of Colors, A Harmony Analogous To That Of A Musical Composition.

Time Extracts Various Values From A Painter's Work. When These Values Are Exhausted The Pictures Are Forgotten, And The More A Picture Has To Give, The Greater It Is.

A Colourist Makes His Presence Known Even In A Simple Charcoal Drawing.

...i Am Driven On By An Idea That I Really Only Grasp As It Grows With The Picture.

I Would Like To Recapture That Freshness Of Vision Which Is Characteristic Of Extreme Youth When All The World Is New To It.