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

Yes, linseed oil. I used to use poppy oil, but I have heard that poppy oil is given to cracking pigment too, so I use it no longer.

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.

I guess I'm not very human. All I really want to do is paint light on the side of a house.

Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world.

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

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