The Real Subject Of Every Painting Is

Now, More Than Ever, I Realize Just How Illusory My Undeserved Success Has Been. I Still Hold Out Some Hope Of Doing Better, But Age And Unhappiness Have Sapped My Strength.

Nature Won't Be Summoned To Order And Won't Be Kept Waiting. It Must Be Caught, Well Caught.

I Think Only Of My Painting, And If I Were To Drop It, I Think I'd Go Crazy.

Ninety Per Cent Of The Theory Of Impressionist Painting Is In . . . Ruskin's Elements.

Paint What You Really See, Not What You Think You Ought To See; Not The Object Isolated As In A Test Tube, But The Object Enveloped In Sunlight And Atmosphere, With The Blue Dome Of Heaven Reflected In The Shadows.