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

I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

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.

I must have flowers, always, and always.