"I'm completely overwhelmed. I'm going to collapse."

"I am in despair. I am working like a madman, but I am not making any progress."

"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."

"I want the unobtainable. Other artists paint a bridge, a house, a boat… I want to paint the air that surrounds the bridge, the house, the boat – the beauty of the air in which these objects are locate…"

"I am very depressed and deeply disgusted with painting. It is really a continual torture."