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

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

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

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

I believe that the great painters with their intellect as master have attempted to force this unwilling medium of paint and canvas into a record of their emotions.

I trust Winsor and Newton and I paint directly upon it.

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.