Feb.11.2007
Tribute to Claude Monet
I am absorbed by work.
These landscapes of water and reflections
have become an obsession.
It is beyond my old man’s powers and
I want nonetheless to succeed in rendering what I feel.
Do you think that the excitement and ecstasy with which
I express and fulfill my passion for nature
simply leads to a fairyland?
I should much prefer to have people acknowledge what is given,
the total self-surrender.
I applied paint to these canvases
the same way that monks of old
illumunated their books of hours;
these owe everything to the collaboration of
solitude and passion…