Most people think I paint fast. I paint very slowly.

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

Gardening was something I learned in my youth when I was unhappy. I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

I've done what I could as a painter and that seems to me to be sufficient. I don't want to be compared to the great masters of the past, and my painting is open to criticism; that's enough.

I would advise young artists to paint as they can, as long as they can, without being afraid of painting badly.

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

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