Well, I have a very simple method of painting.

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.

Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great.

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.

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.