When I don't feel in the mood for painting I go to the movies for a week or more. I go on a regular movie binge!

I use a retouching varnish which is made in France, Libert, and that's all the varnish I use.

It's to paint directly on the canvas without any funny business, as it were, and I use almost pure turpentine to start with, adding oil as I go along until the medium becomes pure oil. I use as little oil as I can possibly help, and that's my method.

When I don't feel in the mood for painting I go to the movies for a week or more. I go on a regular movie binge!

If the picture needs varnishing later, I allow a restorer to do that, if there's any restoring necessary.

I find in working always the disturbing intrusion of elements not a part of my most interested vision, and the inevitable obliteration and replacement of this vision by the work itself as it proceeds.

I find linseed oil and white lead the most satisfactory mediums.