"No one but myself knows the anxiety I go through and the trouble I give myself to finish paintings which do not satisfy me and seem to please so very few others."

"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."

"Everything changes, even stone."

"I am more and more fascinated by the reflections of colors in water. It is quite beyond me."

"I'm completely exhausted. I can't paint another stroke."