Paul Signac quotes:

The anarchist painter is not the one who will create anarchist pictures, but the one who will fight with all his individuality against official conventions.

The golden age has not passed; it lies in the future.

Vuillard balances too far on the side of fantasy... the people in his pictures are not properly defined. As he's an admirable draughtsman it must be that he just doesn't want to give them mouths and hands and feet.

Art is a creation of a higher order than a copy of nature which is governed by chance.... By the elimination of all muddy colors, by the exclusive use of optical mixture of pure colors, by a methodical divisionism and a strict observation of the scientific theory of colors, the neo-impressionists insures a maximum of luminosity, of color intensity, and of harmony- a result that has never yet been obtained.

The art of the colorist has in some ways elements of mathematics and music.