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.

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

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

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

Well, I have a very simple method of painting.

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

More of me comes out when I improvise.