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.

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

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

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

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

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

Well, I have a very simple method of painting.