I am a loner, a daydreamer who has been content to remain in his part of the world and look at the sky. The future will treat me as it does all of us… - Eugène Louis Boudin

I regret I no longer have the years of youth needed to create a beautiful series of views of this place, which would in any case be rather difficult to paint due to the monuments, which require a good draughtsmanship and long stays in the city, like Ziem used to do in the past.

Everything that is painted directly and on the spot always has strength, a power, and a vivacity of touch one cannot recover in the studio.. .Three strokes of the brush in front of nature are worth more than two days of work at the easel [in the studio].

I dare not think of the sun-drenched beaches and the stormy skies, and of the joy of painting them in the sea breezes.