"I'm absolutely miserable. I hate everything."

"My passion has been to stay in contact with nature, and to be concerned with nothing but the truth."

"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."

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

"I'm absolutely disgusted with everything. I want to leave this place."