Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great.

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.

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.

I once got a little camera to use for details of architecture and so forth but the photo was always so different from the perspective the eye gives, I gave it up.

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

If the technical innovations of the Impressionists led merely to a more accurate representation of nature, it was perhaps of not much value in enlarging their powers of expression.

Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world.