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

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

I find in working always the disturbing intrusion of elements not a part of my most interested vision, and the inevitable obliteration and replacement of this vision by the work itself as it proceeds.

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.

What I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.

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!

In general it can be said that a nation's art is greatest when it most reflects the character of its people.