There is a sort of elation about sunlight on the upper part of a house.

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

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I use a retouching varnish which is made in France, Libert, and that's all the varnish I use.

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Maybe I am not very human - what I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.

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I have tried to present my sensations in what is the most congenial and impressive form possible to me.

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If the picture needs varnishing later, I allow a restorer to do that, if there's any restoring necessary.

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In general it can be said that a nation's art is greatest when it most reflects the character of its people.

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

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In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period.

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Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great.

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