The essence of the motif is the mirror of water, whose appearance alters at every moment.

I must have flowers. Always and always.

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

I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it's simply necessary to love.

No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.

Techniques vary, art stays the same; it is a transposition of nature at once forceful and sensitive.

By the single example of this painter devoted to his art with such independence, my destiny as a painter opened out to me.

Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers.