I work at my garden all the time and with love. What I need most are flowers, always. My heart is forever in Giverny.

Lots of people will protest that it's quite unreal and that I'm out of my mind, but that's just too bad

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.

The light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute.

To have gone to all this trouble to get to this is just too stupid! Outside there's brilliant sunshine but I don't feel up to looking at it.

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

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