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.

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

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.

The question of the value of nationality in art is perhaps unsolvable.

I think that zinc white has a property of scaling and cracking.

What I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.

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