"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 don't think I'm made for any earthly kind of pleasure."

"I would advise young artists to paint as they can, as long as they can, without being afraid of painting badly."

"The more I live, the more I regret how little I know."

"It's on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly."