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

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.

the more I live, the more I regret how little i know

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.

My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece

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

Gardening was something I learned in my youth when I was unhappy. I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.