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.

My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece

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

The real subject of every painting is light.

The light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute.

I didn't become an impressionist. As long as I can remember I always have been one.

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