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.

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

What I need most of all is color, always, always.

My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece

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

The older I become the more I realize of that I have to work very hard to reproduce what I search: the instantaneous. The influence of the atmosphere on the things and the light scattered throughout.

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.