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

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.

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

Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great.

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

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 find linseed oil and white lead the most satisfactory mediums.