The only real influence I've ever had was myself.

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

The only real influence I've ever had was myself.

I use a retouching varnish which is made in France, Libert, and that's all the varnish I use.

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.

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.

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.