Claude Monet

"I am in a very black mood and profoundly disgusted with painting. It really is a continual torture! Don't expect to see anything new, the little I did manage to do has been destroyed, scraped off, or …"

"'..learn to draw: that's where most of you are falling down today.. ..draw with all your might; you can never learn too much. However, don’t neglect painting, go to the country from time to time and m…"

"I didn't see a huge wave coming; it threw me against the cliff and I was tossed about in its wake along with all my materials! My immediate thought was that I was done for, as the water dragged me dow…"

"Jongkind.. ..his painting was too new and far too artistic to be appreciated in 1862 at his prices. Moreover, no one was as bad at making himself valued, as he was. He was a straight-forward and simpl…"

"Did not Troyon tell me to enter the studio of Couture ? It is needless to tell you how decided was my refusal to do so. I admit even that it cooled me, temporarily at least, in my esteem and admiratio…"

"I am surrounded by a small group of youngs who will be very happy get to know you. Besides, they are real painters... I find myself very well fixed here. I am drawing figures at hard. And at the Acade…"

"is harder than you think, and I'll bet that you would not split much wood.. .All the same, I have probably not reached the end of my troubles. Here is winter at hand, a season not very pleasant for th…"

"is particularly remarkable and there is enough here to paint for a life-time."