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

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

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.

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

In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period.

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.