Occupation: Artist Birth: April 12, 1885 Death: October 25, 1941
Impressionism; it is the birth of Light in painting..
Light in Nature creates the movement of colors..
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..
Our understanding is correlative to our perception..
The eye is the most refined of our senses, the one which communicates most directly with our mind, our consciousness..
The auditory perception is not sufficient for our knowledge of the world; it does not have vastness..
If Art relates itself to an Object, it becomes descriptive, divisionist, literary..
Seeing is in itself a movement..
Vision is the true creative rhythm..
Nature engenders the science of painting.
But what is of great importance to me is observation of the movement of colors..
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….
Human vision is endowed with the greatest Reality, since it comes to us directly from the contemplation of the Universe..
Painting is by nature a luminous language..
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 ….
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….
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 an….
Direct observation of the luminous essence of nature is for me indispensable.
Simultaneity in light is harmony, the rhythm of colors which creates the Vision of Man..
Art in Nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint..
Light comes to us by the sensibility. Without visual sensibility there is no light, no movement..