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

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"For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at every moment; but the surrounding atmosphere brings it to life - the light and the air which vary continually. For me, it is only the surrounding atmosphere which gives subjects their true value."

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

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"People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it's simply necessary to love."