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.

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

I find linseed oil and white lead the most satisfactory mediums.

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

Well, I have a very simple method of painting.

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

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