To have gone to all this trouble to get to this is just too stupid! Outside there's brilliant sunshine but I don't feel up to looking at it.

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

It's on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly.

My heart is forever in Giverny.

I get madder and madder on giving back what I feel.

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

Now I really feel the landscape, I can be bold and include every tone of pink and blue: it's enchanting, it's delicious, and I hope it will please you.