"I'm absolutely desperate. I'm going to throw in the towel."

"If the world really looks like that I will paint no more!"

"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 chasing the merest sliver of color. It is my own fault, I want to grasp the intangible."

"The essence of the motif is the mirror of water, whose appearance alters at every moment."