Painting From Nature Is Not

One Does Not Substitute Oneself For The Past, One Merely Adds To It A New Link.

To Achieve Progress Nature Alone Counts, And The Eye Is Trained Through Contact With Her. It Becomes Concentric By Looking And Working.

I Lack The Magnificent Richness Of Color That Animates Nature.

With A Painter's Temperament, All That's Needed Are The Means Of Expression Sufficient To Be Intelligible To The Wide Public.

I Ask You To Pray For Me, For Once Age Has Overtaken Us, We Find Consolation Only In Religion.