France has lived a long time - eight or nine centuries - and yet art in France, too, was derivative up until the 19th Century.
I paint is the way I see things with my eyes and in my heart.
The subject itself is of no account; what matters is the way it is presented.
Nature, my dear sir, is only a hypothesis.
American art, like America, must wait and live a while longer.
My eyes were made to erase all that is ugly.