Letters to Emile Bernard

What I got from the letters was about letting life take over your painting. When you paint, go for what you see in nature. It is not so much what you want it to look like, but what it is that is important. They talked about putting your love into the apple. Where as he would not show his love to people openly, he would put it into painting the apple, there it would live forever.

I like the idea of painting what I see, but it does take some exaggeration. But you learn a lot about beauty and what is important from painting what you see.