I would like to paint the way a bird sings.

The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.

These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.

Most people think I paint fast. I paint very slowly.

My work is always better when I am alone and follow my own impressions.

Colour is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.

What I need most of all is colour, always, always.

I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

It is better to have done something than to have been someone.

Everything changes, even stone.

The real subject of every painting is light.

All I did was to look at what the universe showed me, to let my brush bear witness to it.

I must have flowers, always, and always.

Light is the most important person in the picture.

To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.

Do not be afraid of perfection - you will never attain it.

Forever will be you and me.

The true painter must be able, with the most usual things, to have the most unusual ideas.

An elegant woman is a woman who despises you and has no hair under her arms.