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

Well, I've always been interested in approaching a big city in a train, and I can't exactly describe the sensations, but they're entirely human and perhaps have nothing to do with aesthetics.

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.

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

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

I trust Winsor and Newton and I paint directly upon it.

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