Claude Monet — "I'm working like a madman, but I'm not making progress."

"Ah, gentlemen, I do not receive guests when I'm working, indeed. When I work, if I am interrupted, I lose all inspiration; I am lost. You understand, I'm chasing a band of colour."

"The light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute."

"When you go out to paint, try to forget what objects you have before you, a tree, a house, a field or whatever."

"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 often think I am very stupid, but when I look at what others are doing, I think I am a genius."