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

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

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

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.

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