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

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.

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

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.

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

I guess I'm not very human. All I really want to do is paint light on the side of a house.