"No one but myself knows the anxiety I go through and the trouble I give myself to finish paintings which do not satisfy me and seem to please so very few others."

"I am a man who can only paint, and I have never been able to do anything else."

"I'm not good at anything except painting and gardening."

"I am working very hard, struggling with a series of different effects, but the sun goes down so fast that I cannot follow it."

"These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession for me. It is beyond my strength as an old man, and yet I want to render what I feel."