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.
I am very depressed and deeply disgusted with painting. It is really a continual torture.
I'm not performing miracles, I'm using up and wasting a lot of paint.
Light is the most important person in the picture.
I didn't become an impressionist. As long as I can remember I always have been one.
It is only too easy to catch people's attention by doing something worse than anyone else has dared to do it before.