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.

What I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.

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.

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!

My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature.

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

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