One day I am satisfied, the next day I find it all bad; still I hope that some day I will find some of them good.
My life has been nothing but a failure.
As for myself, I met with as much success as I ever could have wanted. In other words, I was enthusiastically run-down by every critic of the period.
Light is the most important person in the picture.
I would like to paint the way a bird sings.
I know that to paint the sea really well, you need to look at it every hour of every day in the same place so that you can understand its way in that particular spot; and that is why I am working on the same motifs over and over again, four or six times even.