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

• 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.
• In general it can be said that a nation's art is greatest when it most reflects the character of its people.
• In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period.
• The question of the value of nationality in art is perhaps unsolvable.
• 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.
• 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.
• No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.
• 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.
• My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature.