Private Journal - A collage of notes and images, sketches kept 1888-1895 & 1907 to 1940

• Nothing is important save the spiritual state that enables one to subjectify one's thoughts to a sensation and to think only of the sensation, all the while searching to express it.
  • 6 Sept 1890.

• To say that a thing is beautiful is simply an act of faith, not a measurement on some kind of scale.
  • 2 April 1891.

• We perceive nature through the senses, which give us images of forms of colour, sounds etc. A form which exists only in relation to another form on its own, it does not exist.
  • 11 Nov 1888.

• Conceive of a picture really as a series of harmonies.
  • 31 Aug 1890.