Claude Monet

My wish is to stay always like this, living quietly in a corner of nature. ”

I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers. ”

No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition. ”

For a long time, I have hoped for better days, but alas, today it is necessary for me to lose all hope. My poor wife suffers more and more. I do not think it is possible to be any weaker. ”

Finally here is a beautiful day, a superb sun like at Giverny. So I worked without stopping, for the tide at this moment is just as I need it for several motifs. This has bucked me up a bit. ”

Etretat is becoming more and more amazing. Now is the real moment: the beach with all its fine boats; it is superb, and I am enraged not to be more skillful in rendering all this. I would need two hands and hundreds of canvases. ”

I pass my time in the open air on the beach when it is really heavy weather or when the boats go out fishing. ”

I am working, but when one has ceased to do seascape, it is the devil afterward - very difficult; it changes at every instant, and here the weather varies several times in the same day. ”