When I Judge Art, I Take My

Perhaps I Was Born Too Early. I Was More The Painter Of Your Generation Than Of Mine.

Literature Expresses Itself By Abstractions, Whereas Painting, By Means Of Drawing And Colour, Gives Concrete Shape To Sensations And Perceptions.

If I Were Called Upon To Define Briefly The Word Art, I Should Call It The Reproduction Of What The Senses Preceive In Nature, Seen Through The Veil Of The Soul.

For An Impressionist To Paint From Nature Is Not To Paint The Subject, But To Realize Sensations.

To Paint Is Not To Copy The Object Slavishly, It Is To Grasp A Harmony Among Many Relationships.