To Do Good Work One Must Eat

God Sends Us Pieces Of Art So That We May See Ourselves In Them

It Is Not The Language Of Painters But The Language Of Nature Which One Should Listen To, The Feeling For The Things Themselves, For Reality Is More Important Than The Feeling For Pictures.

For Great Things Do Not Done Just Happen By Impulse But Are A Succession Of Small Things Linked Together.

Accurate Drawing, Accurate Colour, Is Perhaps Not The Essential Thing To Aim At, Because The Reflection Of Reality In A Mirror, If It Could Be Caught, Colour And All, Would Not Be A Picture At All, No More Than A Photograph.

Ah, Manet Has Come Very, Very Close To It And Courbet - The Marrying Of Form And Colour.