The painter must give a completely free rein to any feeling or sensations he may have and reject nothing to which he is naturally drawn.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The painter who draws merely by practice and by eye, without any reason, is like a mirror which copies every thing placed in front of it without being conscious of their existence.
A painter must think of everything he sees as being there entirely for his own use and pleasure.
Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.
I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint? It might be things, thoughts, a memory, sensations, which have nothing to do directly with painting itself. They can come from anything and anywhere.
Though the artist must remain master of his craft, the surface, at times raised to the highest pitch of loveliness, should transmit to the beholder the sensation which possessed the artist.
The mind of the painter must resemble a mirror, which always takes the colour of the object it reflects and is completely occupied by the images of as many objects as are in front of it.
A painter, who finds no satisfaction in mere representation, however artistic, in his longing to express his inner life, cannot but envy the ease with which music, the most non-material of the arts today, achieves this end. He naturally seeks to apply the methods of music to his own art.
The painter should paint not only what he has in front of him, but also what he sees inside himself.
The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.
The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen.