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

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.

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.

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

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

I have tried to present my sensations in what is the most congenial and impressive form possible to me.

No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.