It is a matter mostly of having the time to spare from my finished paintings to put in on travelling and sketching out of doors..

I am trying to get my paintings a bit lighter in tone, as some of my recent oils have been mistaken for night scenes..

It is... treading on dangerous ground to paint the picturesque as I am at times doing..

One of the things I like about our contract is that you have relieved me of a great deal of personal interviewing and corresponding, among other thin….

I am hoping that, with the added wisdom of old age, I can still look ahead for an improvement in tone, line, colour and composition..

As you can see, at my age - 48 - Art is still one big experiment..

I don't know just what, but there will have to be some drastic changes made besides cutting down on boating to get my mind more on painting..

I was doing something that the officials or art commission probably didn't consider important... I was experimenting with different kinds of realisti….

Unfortunately when I start to talk or when someone watches over my shoulders my pencil either stops or I draw meaningless lines..

One of the main reasons I paint is because I think nature is so wonderful. I want to try to get my feelings of that down on canvas, if possible..

The primitive style makes nature look like stage scenery..

I try to do much of the necessary alteration on the black and white [cartoons] rather than leave it to be done on the paintings..

Leonardo's Mona Lisa sure would have lost out if he had spent only 2 of the 4 or 5 years he took to complete it. It is thinking about him and Ryder, ….

I've found from years of trial that the only way I can work is to make sketches in pencil from Nature, purely as reference material for future use in….

It feels much better to me to think that an artist is working to show his appreciation of what already has been created than creating things himself..

At present I am using a good sized bedroom in the 2 bedroom house here as a studio, and it is large enough to step back from my canvases, and has a g….

I felt landscapes would sell more readily, and not being equipped psychologically to be a teacher or commercial artist, that was important..

My goal is to make all my paintings clear and realistic, even more understandable than a photograph..

When I see these primitive effects coming into my pictures subconsciously, even though the perspective may be slightly out, I leave them in if it hel….

I feel that when I am painting, it is a form of worship. I see how wonderful nature is and how wonderful art is... and by trying to produce these wor….

It takes more time to rework a painting than it takes to fill in the canvas in the first place. I wish I could get them all right with the first coat….