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

"My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece."

"I often think I am very stupid, but when I look at what others are doing, I think I am a genius."

"I am working very hard, struggling with a series of different effects, but the sun goes down so fast that I cannot follow it."

"The motif is secondary; what I want to capture is what there is between the motif and myself."