Impressionism; it is the birth of Light in painting.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Art, to me, is the interpretation of the impression which nature makes upon the eye and brain.
The substance of painting is light.
For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.
Painting... in which the inner and the outer man are inseparable, transcends technique, transcends subject and moves into the realm of the inevitable.
What is art but a way of seeing?
Painting is by nature a luminous language.
On the other hand, the artist has much to do in the realm of color construction, which is so little explored and so obscure, and hardly dates back any farther than to the beginning of Impressionism.
Painting, for me, is a dynamic balance and wholeness of life; it is mysterious and transcending, yet solid and real.
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.
Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul.