It is in accordance with the impression that the plate ought to be painted; it gives you an impact, you translate the impact, and it is this which is truly artistic. It is like this that modern art began. And note that he was right. His plates were not round, but he was right in principle.

When she spent ten years amidst creative environment of highly gifted artists and became deeply acquainted with their ways in Paris, quoted in "Paris (1897-1904)", and in The Mother on Art