Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world.

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.

I find in working always the disturbing intrusion of elements not a part of my most interested vision, and the inevitable obliteration and replacement of this vision by the work itself as it proceeds.

My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature.

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.

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