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I'm inspired by nature. Other artist's work is important for developing my perception.

For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.

Nature engenders the science of painting.

Painting, for me, is a dynamic balance and wholeness of life; it is mysterious and transcending, yet solid and real.

I'm still very sure that painting is one of the most basic human capacities, like dancing and singing, that make sense, that stay with us, as something human.

Painting is a coalescing of experience.

Our experience of any painting is always the latest line in a long conversation we've been having with painting. There's no way of looking at art as though you hadn't seen art before.

We must always take from nature what we paint and always choose the most beautiful things.

Painting (like poetry) chooses from universals what is most apposite. It brings together, in a single imaginary being, circumstances and characteristics which occur in nature in many different persons.

Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.