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

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!

My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature.

So many people say painting is fun. I don't find it fun at all. It's hard work for me.

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

If I had the energy, I would have done it all over the county.

If the technical innovations of the Impressionists led merely to a more accurate representation of nature, it was perhaps of not much value in enlarging their powers of expression.