To See We Must Forget

I Am Very Depressed And Deeply Disgusted With Painting. It Is Really A Continual Torture.

Critic Asks: 'and What, Sir, Is The Subject Matter Of That Painting?' - 'the Subject Matter, My Dear Good Fellow, Is The Light.

Impressionism Is Only Direct Sensation. All Great Painters Were Less Or More Impressionists. It Is Mainly A Question Of Instinct, And Much Simpler Than [john Singer] Sargent Thinks.

It's Enough To Drive You Crazy, Trying To Depict The Weather, The Atmosphere, The Ambience.

These Landscapes Of Water And Reflection Have Become An Obsession.