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 find in working always the disturbing intrusion of elements not a part of my most interested vision, and the inevitable obliteration and replacement of this vision by the work itself as it proceeds.

Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world.

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

The only real influence I've ever had was myself.

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

If the picture needs varnishing later, I allow a restorer to do that, if there's any restoring necessary.