"I'm completely blind, everything is black. I can't paint anymore."

"Now I really feel the landscape. I can be bold and include every tone of pink and blue: it's enchanting, it's delicious."

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

"Étretat is becoming more and more amazing...it's superb and I rage at my inability to express it all better. You'd need to use both hands and cover hundreds of canvases."

"To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at."