Everything changes, even stone.

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

To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.

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

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

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

It took me time to understand my water lilies. I had planted them for the pleasure of it; I grew them without ever thinking of painting them.