You Must Think. The Eye Is Not

It's So Fine And Yet So Terrible To Stand In Front Of A Blank Canvas.

Is It The Factitious And The Conventional That Most Surely Succeed On Earth And In The Course Of Life?

Drawing And Color Are Not Separate At All; In So Far As You Paint, You Draw. The More Color Harmonizes, The More Exact The Drawing Becomes. When The Color Achieves Richness, The Form Attains Its Fullness Also

You Must Think. The Eye Is Not Enough; It Needs To Think As Well.

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.