Well, I have a very simple method of painting.

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.

It's to paint directly on the canvas without any funny business, as it were, and I use almost pure turpentine to start with, adding oil as I go along until the medium becomes pure oil. I use as little oil as I can possibly help, and that's my method.

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!

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.

The question of the value of nationality in art is perhaps unsolvable.

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