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

Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world.

Well, I've always been interested in approaching a big city in a train, and I can't exactly describe the sensations, but they're entirely human and perhaps have nothing to do with aesthetics.

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

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

After all, we are not French and never can be, and any attempt to be so is to deny our inheritance and to try to impose upon ourselves a character that can be nothing but a veneer upon the surface.

Well, I have a very simple method of painting.