“No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.”

“What I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.”

“I trust Winsor and Newton and I paint directly upon it.”

“My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature.”

“If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.”

“The only real influence I've ever had is myself.”

“No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.”

“More of me comes out when I improvise.”

“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.”

“If you could say it in words, there would be no reason to paint.”