Pure Drawing Is An Abstraction.

People Think How A Sugar Basin Has No Physiognomy, No Soul. But It Changes Every Day.

We Must Not Be Content To Memorize The Beautiful Formulas Of Our Illustrious Predecessors. Let Us Go Out And Study Beautiful Nature.

The Louvre Is A Good Book To Consult, But It Must Only Be An Intermediary. The Real And Immense Study That Must Be Taken Up Is The Manifold Picture Of Nature.

There Is No Model, There Is Only Color.

It Is Impossible For Emotion Not To Come On Us In Thinking Of That Time Now Flowed Away.