Claude Monet — "I'm so frustrated. I want to scream."

"I'm completely beside myself with rage and despair."

"I found my eyes fixed on the tragic countenance, mechanically trying to seek the sequence, the degradation of the colours that death had just imposed on the motionless face. Shades of blue, yellow, gr…"

"I'm completely desperate. I don't know what to do anymore."

"The motif is secondary; what I want to capture is what there is between the motif and myself."

"How I dream of Giverny in this lovely weather and envy you for being there, you have no idea. But I am a prisoner and must see it through, despite being completely drained. It's exhausting and I'm wor…"