Cultivate An Ever-continuous Power Of Observation. Wherever

The Habit Of Breaking Up One's Colour To Make It Brilliant Dates From Further Back Than Impressionism - Couture Advocates It In A Little Book Called 'causeries D'atelier' Written About 1860 - It Is Part Of The Technique Of Impressionism But Used For Quite A Different Reason.

I Hate To Paint Portraits! I Hope Never To Paint Another Portrait In My Life. Portraiture May Be All Right For A Man In His Youth, But After Forty I Believe That Manual Dexterity Deserts One, And, Besides, The Color-sense Is Less Acute. Youth Can Better Stand The Exactions Of A Personal Kind That Are Inseparable From Portraiture. I Have Had Enough Of It.

I Do Not Judge, I Only Chronicle.

A Person With Normal Eyesight Would Have Nothing To Know In The Way Of 'impressionism' Unless He Were In A Blinding Light Or In The Dusk Or Dark.

Mine Is The Horny Hand Of Toil.