No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.

The trend in some of the contemporary movements in art, but by no means all, seems to deny this ideal and to me appears to lead to a purely decorative conception of painting.

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.

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!

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

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

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.