Light is the most important person in the picture.

I have made tremendous efforts to work in a darker register and express the sinister and tragic quality of the place, given my natural tendency to work in light and pale tones.

I work at my garden all the time and with love. What I need most are flowers, always. My heart is forever in Giverny.

I didn't become an impressionist. As long as I can remember I always have been one.

It is better to have done something than to have been someone.

What could be said about me...a man to whom only his painting matters? And of course his garden and his flowers as well.

Without the fog, London would not be a beautiful city. It is fog that gives it its magnificent amplitude...its regular and massive blocks become grandiose in that mysterious mantle.