"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."

"I am completely absorbed in my work, and I am not thinking of anything else."

"I'm so fed up with painting. I wish I had never started."

"Most people think I paint fast. I paint very slowly."

"I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers."