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

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

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.

When I don't feel in the mood for painting I go to the movies for a week or more. I go on a regular movie binge!

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.

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