Apart from painting and gardening, I'm not good at anything.

I can only draw what I see.

Now I really feel the landscape, I can be bold and include every tone of pink and blue: it's enchanting, it's delicious, and I hope it will please you.

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.

The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.

It was at home I learned the little I know. Schools always appeared to me like a prison, and never could I make up my mind to stay there, not even for four hours a day, when the sunshine was inviting, the sea smooth, and when it was joy to run about the cliffs in the free air, or to paddle in the water.