If You Could Say It In Words

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.

I Have Tried To Present My Sensations In What Is The Most Congenial And Impressive Form Possible To Me.

After All, We Are Not French And Never Can Be, And Any Attempt To Be So Is To Deny Our Inheritance And To Try To Impose Upon Ourselves A Character That Can Be Nothing But A Veneer Upon The Surface.

If The Picture Needs Varnishing Later, I Allow A Restorer To Do That, If There's Any Restoring Necessary.

I Find Linseed Oil And White Lead The Most Satisfactory Mediums.