"So much of every art is an expression of the subconscious that it seems to me most of all the important qualities are…"

"I am interested primarily in the vast field of experience and sensation which neither literature nor a purely plastic…"

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

"If this end is unattainable, so, it can be said, is perfection in any other ideal of painting or in any other of man'…"

"The trend in some of the contemporary movements in art, but by no means all, seems to deny this ideal and to me appea…"

"One must perhaps qualify this statement and say that seemingly opposite tendencies each contain some modicum of the o…"

"The technical obstacles of painting perhaps dictate this form. It derives also from the limitations of personality, a…"

"I find in working always the disturbing intrusion of elements not a part of my most interested vision, and the inevit…"

"I believe that the great painters with their intellect as master have attempted to force this unwilling medium of pai…"

"I was always interested in architecture, but the editors [of the magazines who demanded these subjects for the illust…"