My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece

I want the unobtainable. Other artists paint a bridge, a house, a boat, and that's the end. They are finished. I want to paint the air which surrounds the bridge, the house, the boat, the beauty of the air in which these objects are located, and that is nothing short of impossible.

I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

The only merit I have is to have painted directly from nature with the aim of conveying my impressions in front of the most fugitive effects.

The Thames was all gold. God it was beautiful, so fine that I began working a frenzy, following the sun and its reflections on the water.

Light is the most important person in the picture.

What I need most of all is color, always, always.