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

Well, I have a very simple method of painting.

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!

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

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

There will be, I think, an attempt to grasp again the surprise and accidents of nature and a more intimate and sympathetic study of its moods, together with a renewed wonder and humility on the part of such as are still capable of these basic reactions.

The trend in some of the contemporary movements in art, but by no means all, seems to deny this ideal and to me appears to lead to a purely decorative conception of painting.