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are under pictorial effects seen to have a new interest. To use that of color. The task is: [[underlined]] "Always to realize the most beautiful color and its [[/underlined]] original, new, characteristic or individual (objectiv, subjectiv) revelation on scenes not far fetched and seen [[strikethrough]] under [[/strikethrough]] in a very clear brilliant light and air. This problem involves the question which ground and technique yields absolute permanent color, its purest effect, the question of flatness of color or of quality, texture. To paint as others do or have done is not worth while to be merely a duplicate of one or a thousand others is to be a [[strikethrough]] mere [[/strikethrough]] unit of a herd. But nature does not produce two naturels alike, and each one has such peculiarities of eye, conception, feeling, action (technique) that by fully developing them he may be supremely original.--

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