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 effect of sincerity is to give one's work the character of a protest. The painter, being concerned only with conveying his impression, simply seeks to be himself and no one else.

My garden is a slow work, pursued with love and I do not deny that I am proud of it. Forty years ago, when I established myself here, there was nothing but a farmhouse and a poor orchard...I bought the house and little by little I enlarged and organized it...I dug, planted weeded, myself; in the evenings the children watered.

It's on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly.

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

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