I have told him nothing [an art-journalist in Paris who wrote in 1887: 'Seurat sees his paternity of the theory Neo-Impressionism contested by misinformed critics and unscrupulous comrades'], but what I have always thought: the more of us (Neo-Impressionists) there are, the less originality we will have, and the day when everyone this technique, it will no longer have any value and people will look for something new as is already happening... It is my right to think this and to say it, since I paint in this way [Neo-Impressionistic], only to find a new approach which is my own.

quote in 1887; as quoted in Seurat in Perspective, ed. Norma Broude, Englewood Cliffs, n. J., Prentice-Hall, 1978, p. 105