If the world really looks like that I will paint no more!

Apart from painting and gardening, I'm not good at anything.

Light is the most important person in the picture.

My work is always better when I am alone and follow my own impressions.

It was at home I learned the little I know. Schools always appeared to me like a prison, and never could I make up my mind to stay there, not even for four hours a day, when the sunshine was inviting, the sea smooth, and when it was joy to run about the cliffs in the free air, or to paddle in the water.

For almost two months now I've been struggling away with no result.

It took me time to understand my water lilies. I had planted them for the pleasure of it; I grew them without ever thinking of painting them.