What I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.

No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.

If I had the energy, I would have done it all over the county.

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.

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.

So many people say painting is fun. I don't find it fun at all. It's hard work for me.

I find linseed oil and white lead the most satisfactory mediums.