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

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.

I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

I see less and less... I need to avoid lateral light, which darkens my colors. Nevertheless, I always paint at the times of day most propitious for me, as long as my paint tubes and brushes are not mixed up... I will paint almost blind, as Beethoven composed completely deaf.

I don’t think I’m made for any earthly kind of pleasure.

These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.

No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.