What I Wanted To Do Was To

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

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.

I Trust Winsor And Newton And I Paint Directly Upon It.

It's (the Lack Of Communication Between The People In His Paintings, Ed.) Probably A Reflection Of My Own, If I May Say, Loneliness. I Don't Know. It Could Be The Whole Human Condition.