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

All of a sudden I had the revelation of how enchanting my pond was.

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.

If the world really looks like that I will paint no more!

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

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.

My life has been nothing but a failure.