What you need for painting

From a letter by Renoir

THE PALETTE:
Flake White                   Rose madder
Chrome yellow              Cobalt blue
Naples yellow                Ultramarine blue
Yellow ocher                  Emerald green
Raw umber                     Ivory black
Venetian red                  Raw sienna
French vermillon          Viridian green
Madder lake                   White lead

DON'T FORGET:
Palette knife
Scraping knife
Essence of turpetine

BRUSHES?
Pointed marten-hair brushes
Flat hog-hair brushes

Indifference to everything except your canvas
An ability to work like a locomotive
An iron will

- Raymond Carver