I Am The Primitive Of The Method

The Painter Must Enclose Himself Within His Work; He Must Respond Not With Words, But With Paintings.

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.

The Strong Experience Of Nature... Is The Necessary Basis For All Conception Of Art On Which Rests The Grandeur And Beauty Of All Future Work.

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

Optics, Developing In Us Through Study, Teach Us To See.