If I Think, I Am Lost.

If I Think, Everything Is Lost.

Surely, A Single Bunch Of Carrots Painted Naively, Just As We Personally See It, Is Worth All The Endless Banalities Of The Schools, All Those Dreary Pictures Concocted Out Of Tobacco Juice According To Time-honored Formulas?

I Have Not Tried To Reproduce Nature; I Have Represented It.

Light Is A Thing That Cannot Be Reproduced, But Must Be Represented By Something Else - By Color.

An Optical Impression Is Produced On Our Organs Of Sight Which Makes Us Classify As Light, Half-tone Or Quartertone, The Surfaces Represented By Colour Sensations. So That Light Does Not Exist For The Painter.