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

..my trip to Venice [during 1895] will have been my swansong.

I have too often contented myself with being a hasty improviser: I have spent too much time exploring fleeting effects of the sky and sea.

[Venice is] somewhat disguised by the artists who usually paint Venice, who have disfigured it by turning it into a city heated by the brightest and hottest sun. On the contrary, Venice, like all luminous cities, has a grey hue, the atmosphere is mild and misty and the sky arrays itself with clouds, just like the sky of our Norman and Dutch regions.