If I did not succeed I still thought that what I had worked on would be continued. Not immediately. But there are others who believe in things that are true.

If you work with love and intelligence, you develop a kind of armour against people's opinions, just because of the sincerity of your love for nature and art. Nature is also severe and, to put it that way, hard, but never deceives and always helps you to move forward.

I am painting with the same enthusiasm as a Marseillaise eats bouillabaisse ... I am painting big sunflowers.

I sometimes think there is nothing so delightful as drawing.

I believe it is one's duty to paint the rich and magnificent aspects of nature. We need gaiety and happiness, hope and love.

Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more.

My sketchbook is a witness of what I am experiencing, scribbling things whenever they happen.