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.

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.

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.

Well, I have a very simple method of painting.

If the technical innovations of the Impressionists led merely to a more accurate representation of nature, it was perhaps of not much value in enlarging their powers of expression.