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Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.

I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint? It might be things, thoughts, a memory, sensations, which have nothing to do directly with painting itself. They can come from anything and anywhere.

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

Painting is a coalescing of experience.

It is not an aesthetic misstep to make the viewer aware of the paint and the painter's hand. Such an empathetic awareness lies at the heart of aesthetic appreciation.

Art, to me, is the interpretation of the impression which nature makes upon the eye and brain.

You can only paint through your experience and sub-consciousness.

I don't really consider myself an impressionist.

See, when I paint, it is an experience that, at its best, is transcending reality.

I'm still very sure that painting is one of the most basic human capacities, like dancing and singing, that make sense, that stay with us, as something human.