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• My only desire is an intimate infusion with nature, and the only fate I wish is to have worked and lived in…
• What could be said about me...a man to whom only his painting matters? And of course his garden and his flowers as…
• I work at my garden all the time and with love. What I need most are flowers, always. My heart is forever…
• The light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute.
• My garden is a slow work, pursued with love and I do not deny that I am proud of it. Forty years…
• Pictures aren't made out of doctrines. Since the appearance of impressionism, the official salons, which used to be brown, have become blue,…
• Gardening was something I learned in my youth when I was unhappy. I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
• What I need most of all is color, always, always.
• Colors pursue me like a constant worry. They even worry me in my sleep.
• When you go out to paint, try to forget what objects you have before you - a tree, house, a field....Merely think,…
• Lots of people will protest that it's quite unreal and that I'm out of my mind, but that's just too bad
• I've done what I could as a painter and that seems to me to be sufficient. I don't want to be compared…

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