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.

I use a retouching varnish which is made in France, Libert, and that's all the varnish I use.

I trust Winsor and Newton and I paint directly upon it.

If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.

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.

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