“I have always worked better alone and from my own impressions.”

“Among the seascapes, I am doing the regattas of Le Havre with many figures on the beach and the outer harbor covered with small sails.”

“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.”