"I am completely absorbed in my work, and I am not thinking of anything else."

"Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love."

"These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession for me. It is beyond my strength as an old man, and yet I want to render what I feel."

"I'm completely beside myself with rage and despair."

"The motif is insignificant for me; what I want to reproduce is what exists between the motif and me."