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.

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

In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period.

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

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

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

In general it can be said that a nation's art is greatest when it most reflects the character of its people.