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

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.

There is a sort of elation about sunlight on the upper part of a house.

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.

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

There will be, I think, an attempt to grasp again the surprise and accidents of nature and a more intimate and sympathetic study of its moods, together with a renewed wonder and humility on the part of such as are still capable of these basic reactions.

More of me comes out when I improvise.