I love music passionately. And because I love it, I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it. - Claude Debussy

Collect impressions. Don’t be in a hurry to write them down. Because that’s something music can do better than painting: it can centralise variations of colour and light within a single picture — a truth generally ignored, obvious as it is.

La musique doit humblement chercher à faire plaisir, l'extrême complication est le contraire de l'art

What I am trying to do is something different — an effect of reality, but what some fools call Impressionism, a term that is usually misapplied, especially by the critics who don't hesitate to apply it to Turner, the greatest creator of mysterious effects in the whole world of art.