I get madder and madder on giving back what I feel.

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

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.

It is only too easy to catch people's attention by doing something worse than anyone else has dared to do it before.

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

The older I become the more I realize of that I have to work very hard to reproduce what I search: the instantaneous. The influence of the atmosphere on the things and the light scattered throughout.

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