"I am tied to this garden and I will paint in it for the rest of my life."

"No one but myself knows the anxiety I go through and the trouble I give myself to finish paintings which do not satisfy me and seem to please so very few others."

"I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers."

"I want the unobtainable. Other artists paint a bridge, a house, a boat… I want to paint the air that surrounds the bridge, the house, the boat – the beauty of the air in which these objects are locate…"

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