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.

Everything changes, even stone.

No, I'm not a great painter. Neither am I a great poet.

I want the unobtainable. Other artists paint a bridge, a house, a boat, and that's the end. They are finished. I want to paint the air which surrounds the bridge, the house, the boat, the beauty of the air in which these objects are located, and that is nothing short of impossible.

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

Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers.

When you go out to paint, try to forget what objects you have before you - a tree, house, a field....Merely think, here is a little square of blue, here an oblong of pink, here a streak of yellow, and paint it just as it looks to you, the exact color and shape, until it gives your own naive impression of the scene before you.