The only real influence I've ever had was myself.
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.
More of me comes out when I improvise.
I find linseed oil and white lead the most satisfactory mediums.
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.