Yes, linseed oil. I used to use poppy oil, but I have heard that poppy oil is given to cracking pigment too, so I use it no longer.

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.

If the picture needs varnishing later, I allow a restorer to do that, if there's any restoring necessary.

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.

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

When I don't feel in the mood for painting I go to the movies for a week or more. I go on a regular movie binge!

In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period.