"I'm absolutely desperate. I'm going to throw in the towel."

"I'm absolutely disgusted with myself. I'm a failure."

"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 …"

"I'm sick of this weather. It's always raining or cloudy."

"I want the unobtainable. Other artists paint a bridge, a house, a boat… I want to paint the air that surrounds the bridge, the house, the boat – the beauty of the air in which these objects are locate…"