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.

If the technical innovations of the Impressionists led merely to a more accurate representation of nature, it was perhaps of not much value in enlarging their powers of expression.

If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.

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.

I think that zinc white has a property of scaling and cracking.

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