"Étretat is becoming more and more amazing...it's superb and I rage at my inability to express it all better. You'd need to use both hands and cover hundreds of canvases."

"If the world really looks like that I will paint no more!"

"Never, even as a child, would I bend to a rule."

"I'm so frustrated. Nothing is working out."

"No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition."