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.

In general it can be said that a nation's art is greatest when it most reflects the character of its people.

If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.

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

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 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.

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