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

Well, I have a very simple method of painting.

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.

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.

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

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.

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