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

"I'm having a very bad time just now; everything is going wrong, and I'm very much afraid I shall have to give it all up."

"Impression – I was certain of it. I was just telling myself that, since I was impressed, there had to be some impression in it … and what freedom, what ease of workmanship! Wallpaper in its embryonic …"

"Dear God, this cursed Cathedral is hard to do… Fourteen paintings on the go today… I'm exhausted and it seems that every day the light changes: it gets whiter and higher up."

"Everything changes, even stone."