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 trust Winsor and Newton and I paint directly upon it.

I think that zinc white has a property of scaling and cracking.

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

If I had the energy, I would have done it all over the county.

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

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.