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

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.

Zaandam has enough to paint for a lifetime.

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

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

No, I'm not a great painter. Neither am I a great poet.

I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.