"I'm completely exhausted. I can't paint another stroke."

"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."

"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."

"I'm working like a madman, but I'm not making progress."

"I must have flowers, always, and always."