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. - Eugène Louis Boudin

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].

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

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. I am very much afraid it may be oblivion.