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

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

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

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 have tried to present my sensations in what is the most congenial and impressive form possible to me.

In general it can be said that a nation's art is greatest when it most reflects the character of its people.

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