It is this research into pure painting that is the problem at the present moment. I do not know any painters in Paris who are really searching for th….

Seeing is in itself a movement..

Art in Nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint..

The eye is the most refined of our senses, the one which communicates most directly with our mind, our consciousness..

The word "art" means harmony for me. I never speak of mathematics and never bother with the Spirit. My only science is the choice of impressions that….

Painting is by nature a luminous language..

Light comes to us by the sensibility. Without visual sensibility there is no light, no movement..

First of all, I always see the sun! The way I want to identify myself and others is with halos here and there halos, movements of color. And that, I ….

Simultaneity in light is harmony, the rhythm of colors which creates the Vision of Man..

But what is of great importance to me is observation of the movement of colors..

If Art relates itself to an Object, it becomes descriptive, divisionist, literary..

I say it is indispensable to look ahead of and behind oneself in the present. If there is such a thing as tradition, and I believe there is, it can o….

Direct observation of the luminous essence of nature is for me indispensable.

But what I attach great importance to is observation of the movement of colors. It is only in this way that I have found the laws of complementary co….

Human vision is endowed with the greatest Reality, since it comes to us directly from the contemplation of the Universe..

The auditory perception is not sufficient for our knowledge of the world; it does not have vastness..

Our understanding is correlative to our perception..

Impressionism; it is the birth of Light in painting..

I am very much afraid of definitions, and yet one is almost forced to make them. One must take care, too, not to be inhibited by them..

Light in Nature creates the movement of colors..

Vision is the true creative rhythm..