Gardening was something I learned in my youth when I was unhappy. I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.
It is better to have done something than to have been someone.
To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.
All of a sudden I had the revelation of how enchanting my pond was.
If the world really looks like that I will paint no more!