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

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.

No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.

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

Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great.

I guess I'm not very human. All I really want to do is paint light on the side of a house.

Yes, linseed oil. I used to use poppy oil, but I have heard that poppy oil is given to cracking pigment too, so I use it no longer.