Claude Monet — "I am very depressed and deeply disgusted with painting. It is really a continual…"

"I would advise young artists to paint as they can, as long as they can, without being afraid of painting badly."

"These palm trees [in Bordighera, Italy] are driving me crazy; and also the motifs are extremely difficult to render, to put down on canvas; everywhere is so lush."

"I'm not good at anything except painting and gardening."

"I'm absolutely furious. I can't stand it anymore."

"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…"