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

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

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

Well, I have a very simple method of painting.

There will be, I think, an attempt to grasp again the surprise and accidents of nature and a more intimate and sympathetic study of its moods, together with a renewed wonder and humility on the part of such as are still capable of these basic reactions.

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.