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

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.

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

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

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.

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