For me, the subject is of secondary importance: I want to convey what is alive between me and the subject.

I can only draw what I see.

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

These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.

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.

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.

No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.