To have gone to all this trouble to get to this is just too stupid! Outside there's brilliant sunshine but I don't feel up to looking at it.
I get madder and madder on giving back what I feel.
Apart from painting and gardening, I'm not good at anything.
No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.
No, I'm not a great painter. Neither am I a great poet.
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.