My heart is forever in Giverny.

My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece

I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

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.

When you go out to paint, try to forget what objects you have before you - a tree, house, a field....Merely think, here is a little square of blue, here an oblong of pink, here a streak of yellow, and paint it just as it looks to you, the exact color and shape, until it gives your own naive impression of the scene before you.

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

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