These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.

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

I must have flowers, always, and always.

To have gone to all this trouble to get to this is just too stupid! Outside there's brilliant sunshine but I don't feel up to looking at it.

The only merit I have is to have painted directly from nature with the aim of conveying my impressions in front of the most fugitive effects.

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

Everything changes, even stone.