I progress very slowly, for nature reveals herself to me in very complex ways; and the progress needed is endless. One must look at the model and feel very exactly and also express oneself distinctly and with force
... nature for use men is more depth than surface whence the need to introduce into our light vibrations, represented by the red and yellows, a sufficient amout of blueness to give the feel of air.
この言葉は Sara も読んでいて、「なるほど~」と思ったらしい。 そうか… 青を取り入れればいいのか…
In order to progress, there is only native, and the eye is trained through contact with her. It becomes concentric through looking and working. I mean to say that in an orange, an apple, a ball, a head, there is na cuminating point; and this point is always - in spite of the tremendous effect, light and shade, colour sensations - the closest to our eyes, the edge of the objects flee towards a centre on our horizon.
... treat the nature by means of the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything brought into proper perspective so that each side of an object or a plane is directed towards central points. Line parallel to the horizon give breadth, wheather it is a section of nature or, if you prefer, of the show which the Pater Omnipotens Aeterne Peus spreads out before our eyes. Lines perpendicular to this horizon give depth