No, I'm not a great painter. Neither am I a great poet.
I waited for the idea to consolidate, for the grouping and composition of themes to settle themselves in my brain.
It's on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly.
I didn't become an impressionist. As long as I can remember I always have been one.
Light is the most important person in the picture.
I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.