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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.

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.

It would be nice once during my life to go over [to Europe] and study the original paintings of the Masters.

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

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

It is definitely mostly due to the invention of the camera that all this design and emphasized paint quality have come into painting.

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.

The primitive style makes nature look like stage scenery.

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.

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.

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.

I hope my work isn't dismissed by the critics as illustration or photography.

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

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

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

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