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.

I think that zinc white has a property of scaling and cracking.

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

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

The question of the value of nationality in art is perhaps unsolvable.

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.

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