“In general it can be said that a nation's art is greatest when it most reflects the character of its people.”
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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.
In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period.
My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature.
Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great.
