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

"Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment."

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

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

"I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, 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."

"My life has been nothing but a failure."