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.

I once got a little camera to use for details of architecture and so forth but the photo was always so different from the perspective the eye gives, I gave it up.

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

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.

In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period.

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!

There is a sort of elation about sunlight on the upper part of a house.