“My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature.”
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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.
The question of the value of nationality in art is perhaps unsolvable.
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.
In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period.
