"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 have painted so many water lilies and I am still not satisfied. I want to paint them perfectly."

"I'm having a very bad time just now; everything is going wrong, and I'm very much afraid I shall have to give it all up."

"I'm absolutely fed up with painting. I'm going to give it all up."

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