My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece

I didn't become an impressionist. As long as I can remember I always have been one.

Most people think I paint fast. I paint very slowly.

My only desire is an intimate infusion with nature, and the only fate I wish is to have worked and lived in harmony with her laws.

To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.

For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at every moment; but the surrounding atmosphere brings it to life - the light and the air which vary continually. For me, it is only the surrounding atmosphere which gives subjects their true value.

I would like to paint the way a bird sings.