Despite my extremely modest prices, dealers and art lovers are turning their backs on me. It is very depressing to see the lack of interest shown in an art object which has no market value.

I'm not performing miracles, I'm using up and wasting a lot of paint.

My life has been nothing but a failure.

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.

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.

Light is the most important person in the picture.

My heart is forever in Giverny.