I know that to paint the sea really well, you need to look at it every hour of every day in the same place so that you can understand its way in that particular spot; and that is why I am working on the same motifs over and over again, four or six times even.

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.

These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.

For me, the subject is of secondary importance: I want to convey what is alive between me and the subject.

I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

It is a tragedy that we live in a world where physical courage is so common, and moral courage is so rare.

Lots of people will protest that it's quite unreal and that I'm out of my mind, but that's just too bad