No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.
I trust Winsor and Newton and I paint directly upon it.
Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great.
My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature.
The question of the value of nationality in art is perhaps unsolvable.
In general it can be said that a nation's art is greatest when it most reflects the character of its people.
In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period.
Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world.