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

The only real influence I've ever had was myself.

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

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

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.

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