I find linseed oil and white lead the most satisfactory mediums.

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 think that zinc white has a property of scaling and cracking.

The trend in some of the contemporary movements in art, but by no means all, seems to deny this ideal and to me appears to lead to a purely decorative conception of painting.

I have tried to present my sensations in what is the most congenial and impressive form possible to me.

In general it can be said that a nation's art is greatest when it most reflects the character of its people.